norðan

From Proto-Germanic *nurþanē (“from the north”), from *nurþraz (“north”) +‎ *-anē.

norðan (not comparable)

1. from the north

• (from compass point): austan, sunnan, vestan

• norðanfjarðar (“north of the firth”, adverb)
• norðanlands (“in the north”, adverb)
• norðanmaðr m (“a man from the north”)
• norðanstormr m (“a storm from the north”)
• norðanveðr n (“wind from the north”)
• norðanverðr (“northern”)
• norðanvindr m (“north wind”)

• norðr (“north”)
• norðrœnn (“northern”)
• nyrðri (“northerlier”)

• nordan in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press