Crossword clues for odal
odal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odal \O"dal\, n. [Cf. Icel. [=e]?al, Dan. odel allodial, Sw. odal.] (Law) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.
Odal \O"dal\, a. (Law) Noting, or pert. to, odal land or ownership.
Wikipedia
The Elder Futhark Odal rune , also known as the 'Othala' rune, represents the o sound. Its reconstructed Proto-Germanic name is *ōþalan "heritage; inheritance, inherited estate".
It was in use for epigraphy during the 3rd to the 8th centuries. It is not continued in the Younger Futhark, disappearing from the Scandinavian record around the 6th century, but it survived in the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and expressed the Old English œ phoneme during the 7th and 8th centuries. Its name is attested as ēðel in the Anglo-Saxon manuscript tradition.
The rune is encoded in Unicode at codepoint U+16DF:
Odal (oþal, Anglo-Saxon éðel, German uodal-, adel) is a Germanic word which relates to property, heritability or nobility. It can refer to the following:
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Odal (rune), a Germanic rune
- after the rune, the Πligature
- Ethel-, Aethel-, Uodal- as an element in Germanic names, see Ethel
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Allodium:
- Odelsrett, a traditional Scandinavian law
- Udal law, the Scottish derivative of the Odelsrett
- Odal, Norway, a traditional district in Norway
Usage examples of "odal".
Being the eldest, he holds the odal rights, and he is in favor with King Athelstan.
Even though his presence in the room was only an image, Odal saw clearly what was in Kor's mind: bigger prisons, more prisoners, more interrogation rooms flued with terrified, helpless people who would cringe at the mention of Kor's name.