Uladstir

English

Etymology

From Old Norse Uladztir, possibly from Old Irish Ulaidh tír (“Land of Ulsterman”).

Proper noun

Uladstir

1. Ulster (sense 1)
   • 1873, Joseph Anderson, Gilbert Goudie, Jón Andrésson Hjaltalin, The Orkneyinga Saga:

     The next summer, on St. Bartholomew's Day, he fell in Uladstir (Ulster).

   • 1923, Ridgway Company, Adventure: Volume 43:

     From Il he had crossed the tossing waters of the oper ocean to Uladstir, where Swain's company found a charred village on the shores of Ulfresksfiord.

   • 2021, Peter Burke, King Harold II:

     9. Magnus Barelegs at the Battle of Ulster (Uladstir).