odal

plural odals · alternative Odal · alternative odel · alternative odhal · alternative udal · alternative othala

1. countablehistoricaluncountablelawAmong the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, especially Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen.

   At the time of the laws owners of odal had, it appears, certain powers of selling their odal, but even then it was not an uncontrolled right of a man to do what he would with his own.

   1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 273

2. countableuncountableThe ownership and claim of such land.

   Generations of ancestors may have given an extended family the right to the land, in the same way that later Norse settlers obtained an odal right to the land they farmed.

   2000, Liv Kjørsvik Schei, The Islands of Orkney, Colin Baxter, →ISBN, page 15

3. countableuncountableA rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.

alternative Odal · alternative odel · alternative odhal · alternative udal · alternative othala

1. not comparableOf or relating to odal land.

1. not comparablecommunicationsOf or relating to an ode or odes.

   1 more example

   But what’s clear from the extraordinary proliferation of contemporary lyric odes, and the reactions to the ecstatic claims of these odes, is that the question of poetry, sociality, and globality has become unavoidable: contemporary poetry, which has long resisted incorporation into the discourse of globalization, must be understood on a global, and odal, scale.

   2016, Walt Hunter, “Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons”, in Symploke, volume 24, numbers 1–2, page 227

alternative Odal · alternative adul

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

   Extract the oil from the seeds of Odal (Sarcostigma kleinii) and apply on the affected part of the body.

   1998, K. Jose Boban, Tribal Ethnomedicine: Continuity and Change, page 235

plural Odals

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of odal

   Images of the CPAC stage went viral this weekend as many noted a resemblance to the Odal or Othala Rune, a symbol emblazoned on some Nazi uniforms.

   2021 March 1, Jaclyn Peiser, “As CPAC dismisses claims that its stage resembled a Nazi insignia, Hyatt calls hate symbols ‘abhorrent’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN

   1 more example

   In an email to Politico, Meyer said: “Like the hydra, you can cut off my head and hold it up for the world to see, but two more will quietly appear and be working in the shadows. Slating Trump to speak at [Madison Square Garden]^([sic]), putting ‘poisoning the blood’ in his speeches, setting up Odal runes at CPAC, etc. […].”

   2024 November 5, Lorenzo Tondo, quoting Luke Meyer, “Trump staffer fired from Republican party for being a white supremacist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN