Lochlann

In the modern Gaelic languages, ' () signifies Scandinavia or, more specifically, Norway. As such it is cognate with the Welsh name for Scandinavia, ' (). In both old Gaelic and old Welsh, such names literally mean 'land of lakes' or 'land of swamps'.

It may originally have referred to the mythical, undersea otherworldly abode of the Fomorians of Irish mythology. At times it may have referred to an early Norse settlement in Scotland.