odal

Meanings

1. Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.
2. The ownership and claim of such land.
3. A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.

1. Of or relating to odal land.

1. Of or relating to an ode or odes.

1. A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.

1. Alternative letter-case form of odal

Etymology

From Icelandic óðal (“estate”). Cognate with Norwegian odel, odal (“allodium, patrimony”), Old English ēþel (“homeland”). Compare athel, Odelsthing.