lälen (noun): kingdom; country.
elrer un er-lälen palröncheÃ
once and this-kingdom more.glorious
“this kingdom [was much] more glorious once [than it is now]”
lälen originally meant ‘land owned in common’ (for example, in a village, or among a number of cultivators), but its meaning was extended to meaning ‘the lands belonging to a kingdom’ (i.e., owned ‘in common’ under the king’s authority) and, by further extension, ‘country’. The noun lälneon ‘king’ is derived from lälen.