nightertale
The period of night; nighttime.
archaic
A person (as their books make her) raised up by power divine, only for succour to the French estate, then deeply in distress, in whom, for planting a credit the rather, first the company that towards the Dauphin did conduct her, through all dangerous, as held by the English, where she never was afore, all the way and by nightertale safely did she lead; […]
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English nyghtertale, alteration of Old Norse náttarþel.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry nightertale (CC BY-SA 4.0).