Atland = fatherland?

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net_eamelje
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Atland = fatherland?

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Most assume that Atland is to be read as "Old land", but I was wondering if it could originally have meant "Fatherland"? In current frysian language, the word for father is "heit" (pronounce as 'hait"), but old frysian and gothic it would have been "atta" (https://www.schotanus.us/Friesland/Frie ... risian.htm). Atta-land, written as/bastardized as Atland?
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