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n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to eight ouncelands.
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Markland is the name given to one of three lands on North America's Atlantic shore discovered by Leif Eriksson around 1000 CE. It was located south of Helluland and north of Vinland.
Although it was never recorded to be settled by Norsemen, there were probably a number of later expeditions from Greenland to gather timber. A 1347 Icelandic document records that a ship has come off course and ended up in Iceland in the process of returning from Markland, without further specifying where Markland is.
A markland or merkland is an old Scottish unit of land measurement.
There was some local variation in the equivalences, for example, in some places eight ouncelands were equal to one markland, but in others, such as Islay, a markland was twelve ouncelands. The markland derived its name from the old coin the Merk Scots (cognate with German mark and various other European coinages, see Mark (money)), which was the annual rent paid on it, and so it was calculated by this, rather than its actual area. Originally a Scots mark or merk was 13s 4d (160 pence), but the Scottish coinage depreciated against the English, and by the 18th century a Scots merk was worth only 13 /d sterling - one-twelfth of its original value. Although such coins were abolished by the Acts of Union 1707, some stayed in circulation for decades, and the names themselves remained in common use for centuries.
Markland, also known as the Andrew Anderson House, is a historic mansion in St. Augustine, Florida. It was built in the Greek Revival style of Classical Revival architecture.
Markland is a surname of the following people:
- Gene Markland (1919–1999), American baseball player
- George Herchmer Markland (1790–1862), Upper Canada politician
- James Heywood Markland (1788–1864), English solicitor
- Jeremiah Markland (1693–1776), English classical scholar
- Peter Markland (born 1951), English chess player
- Robert Markland (fl. 1659), English politician
- Stuart Markland (born 1948), Scottish footballer
- Ted Markland (1933–2011), American actor
Markland is the name given by the Icelandic Norseman Leifur Eiríksson to an area of North America.
Markland may also refer to:
- Markland (surname)
- Markland (Scots)
- Markland, Indiana
- Markland, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Markland Locks and Dam
Usage examples of "markland".
Kingman Markland stretched a foot from his prone position and kicked at a rusting canteen.
Jack Markland studied his brother meditatively, still sitting in the ragged grass, leaning back on his big flat palms.
The trouble was that Kingman Markland, steel wire and lightning as he was, had never been able to keep his facile mind at anything.
King Markland swore bitterly, beating the uncaring body of the tree with helpless fists.
That flesh Iying there, already wearing the look of deterioration, a carrion look, was his brother, Andrew Jackson Markland, who not long since had been one of the handsomest bucks along the Harpeth River.
It was three days before Andrew Jackson Markland roused enough to know that he had come home.
There had been a ribald joke passed around when Boone Markland married wispy little Annie Lou Breen.
Pa was the big noise on the Markland place, but tiny Miss Annie7 darting about like some gossamer-winged insect, was the boss.
Not a word had been said, but King knew by what was not spoken that Billy, the third Markland son, had gone for the Union.
Spoiled outrageously, Morgan, who had inherited the reckless Markland courage, all the arrogance and belligerence of the clan, had early demonstrated brash young scorn for many of the principles of honor, trustworthiness, generosity and forbearance that went with it.
William Breen Markland, the odd one, named for their Irish grandfather, and like that taciturn, obdurate old man always a nonconformist, an objector, full of booklore, aloof and stiffened with stubborn opinions.
When he was caught trying to ride a barge down river to Kentucky, Boone Markland had sold Big Bob south, the only Negro ever sold off the place.
Though he would not have known how to put this thought into words, there were times when Boone Markland felt like a rough old lion who had whelped a pride of black panthers.
Kingman Pryor Markland drank all the creamy eggnog and felt the warmth of it flow through his dried-out veins and aching muscles.
He was still very thin and his big dark eyes glittered out of caverns under the insolent Markland brows.