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odal, n. (a.)|ˈəʊdəl|
See also udal.
[a. ON. óðal property held by inheritance (Norw. odal n., Sw. odal, Da. odel now adj. and in comb.) = OHG. uodal, also uodil, OS. óđil, OE. œ́ðel, éðel, f. root að, ôð, whence also OHG. adal, Ger. adel noble descent, OHG. ędili, Ger. edel, OE. æðele, eðele noble.]
Land held in absolute ownership without service or acknowledgement of any superior, as among the early Teutonic peoples; esp. such an estate among the Scandinavian peoples, or in Orkney and Shetland (where the usual form of the word is udal, q.v.). Chiefly attrib. and in Comb., as odal-born adj., odal-land, odal-right.
In reference to Norway, the Da. form odel is often retained.
[1755tr. Pontoppidan's Nat. Hist. Norway 289 Every freeholder in Norway has vanity enough to think himself as good as noble by Odel, or right of inheritance.] 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 77 The most probable opinion respecting the Folcland, seems to be that which regards it as the same with the Odal-land of Scandinavia. 1847I. A. Blackwell Mallet's North. Antiq. 289 Not retainers, but Odal-born freemen. 1860D. Balfour (title) Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs, a Memorial for Orkney. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iii. §24. 52 The homestead of the original settler..with the share of arable and appurtenant common rights, bore among the northern nations the name of Odal, or Edhel. [1886J. Corbett Fall of Asgard I. 93 ‘A fair odel you have here, Heidrek’, said Gudrun. Ibid. 136 Olaf Haroldsson..deems himself, in pure odel-right, heir to Tryggvason's kingdom.] |