norþrihte

norþ (“north”) +‎ rihte (“straight”)

norþrihte

1. due north
   • Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

     Þā fōr hē norðrihte bē þǣm lande: lēt him ealne weġ þæt wēste land on þæt steorbord, and þā wīd sǣ on bæcbord, þrȳ dagas. Þā wæs hē swā feor norð swā þā hwælhuntan fyrrest farað.

     Then he traveled due north along the land, always keeping the wasteland to his starboard and the wide sea to his port, for three days. Then he was as far north as the whalers' farthest travels.

• ēastrihte
• sūþrihte
• westrihte

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “norþ-rihte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.