No mouth has the might to set a mearbound to the march of a landsmaul
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Jump to navigationJump to search- "No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation": Charles Stewart Parnell, speech in Cork, 1885.
- mears and bounds: Lines of demarcation separating parcels of land; borders
- Landsmal (Norwegian): Land's Language. Literary form of the Norwegian language, devised by the Norwegian philologist Ivar Aasen (1813-1896) from the country dialects most closely descended from Old Norse, and considered to be a 'purer' form of the Norwegian language than the official.
- Hence, "No mouth has the might to set a limit on the progress of a land's language."
