What is "marchlands"

Usage examples of "marchlands".

He had the accent of a man born and bred in the east among the free farmers, those who had settled in the marchlands in exchange for land of their own and the protection of the king.

Eagle alone through the marchlands while the Quman ride where they will and we hide here behind our walls?

In the marchlands, imposters sometimes ride into villages and claim to be clerics, or lords, or heathen sorcerers with the power to make birds talk and the rivers run with gold.

Sanglant and his troops spent three weeks following the meandering trail of Prince Bayan and Princess Sapientia as it wound through the marchlands of Ol-satia, Austra, and Eastfall.

East of Wendar lie the marchlands and farther eastI see there is nothing marked here.

Ungrian retainers, Lord Wichman, the Polenie duke Boleslas, Hrodik and Druthmar, Brigida with her levies from Avaria, a lady from Fesse, and several nobles from the marchlands who had joined to avenge the damage done to their lands by the Quman.

Somehow, in the space of one night, they had traveled from the marchlands all the way to the center of Wendar.

Saony, the highlands far to the south of Avaria, and the distant marchlands to the east.

Wendar and Varre and the marchlands and more time after that to march them all the way to Gent.

Better not to think of the Quman invasion of the marchlands and eastern Wendar that had caught her in its net.

Zacharias might have cheered to see Wolfhere spoken to in such a way, but he had himself been born to freeholders who had risked farming in the marchlands in order to be beholden to no lord, only to the regnant.

From the marchlands I will turn south and draw more Wendish troops as I go.

The field in which his army camped lay in the marchlands, in border country where no person quite knew what land lay under the suzerainty of which lady or lord.