Alans vs Aland - What's the difference?
alans | aland |
(obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water.
*1609 , (William Shakespeare), Pericles , V:
*:I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea [...] Why, as Men doe a-land .
*c. 1541 , The Chronicle of Calais , London 1846:
*:Henry the Eighth [...] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge [...].