| 单词 | odal-right |
| 释义 | > as lemmasodal-right 3. Scandinavian History. Usually in form odal. Land held in absolute ownership without service or acknowledgement of any superior; esp. such an estate among the Scandinavian peoples. Chiefly attributive and in other combinations, as odal-born adj., odal-land, odal-right.In reference to Norway, the Danish form odel is often retained. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > freehold land or property > in absolute possession allodium1607 allody1650 allodials1681 udal1755 allod1836 1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway ii. 289 Every freeholder in Norway has vanity enough to think himself as good as noble by Odel, or right of inheritance. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) 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. 1847 I. A. Blackwell in T. Percy et al. tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. (rev. ed.) 289 Not retainers, but Odal-born freemen. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. 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. 1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard I. 93 ‘A fair odel you have here, Heidrek’, said Gudrun. 1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard I. 136 Olaf Haroldsson..deems himself, in pure odel-right, heir to Tryggvason's kingdom. < as lemmas |
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