Odal

He made new laws, took from the peasants their odal estates, and declared all land to be the king's property. ❋ Robert Leighton (N/A)

On their failure to find the money, Torf-Einar paid it himself, taking in return from the people their odal lands, [18] which were lost to their families until Jarl Sigurd Hlodverson temporarily restored them as a recompense for their assistance in the battle fought by him between ❋ James Gray (N/A)

Whether it was the Orkney jarls or their superiors, the kings of Norway, who owned them in the meantime, the odal lands were finally sold back to those entitled to them by descent by Jarl Ragnvald Kol's son about 1137, in order to raise money for the completion of Kirkwall Cathedral. ❋ James Gray (N/A)

Always I have thought it shame that my kinsman's odal should lie in English hands, and now I have made up my mind to put an end to it. ❋ Unknown (1893)

I will make a condition with Edmund that the Etheling's odal shall not be included in the land which is peace-holy, and that to ravage it shall not be looked upon as breaking the truce. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The odal-born men could not prevent it when Ethelred took Alfric back. ❋ Unknown (1893)

What service I pay to you, I pay as an odal-man to the State for which you stand. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Proudly as became an odal-woman, she followed the page when he came at last to call her to the royal presence. ❋ Unknown (1893)

At last they stood defined, the first of the feudal lords and the last of the odal-born men. ❋ Unknown (1893)

"Yet for the good of the realm, I must lay on your odal one burden, Frode's daughter." ❋ Unknown (1893)

Lodbrok, sends you greeting, Sebert Oswaldsson; and it is his will that you surrender to him the odal and Tower of Ivarsdale; as is right, because the odal was created and the Tower was built by Ivar Vidfadmi, who was the first son of Lodbrok and the father's father's father of my chief --- "In spite of himself, he was obliged to stop to take in breath. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Wide-Fathomer, to stretch his strips of oxhide around this dale and turn it into an odal. " ❋ Unknown (1893)