Meaning of odal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of odal
   alt-of
2. 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.
   historical
3. A large liana native to India and Southeastern Asia, Sarcostigma kleinii, used to produce therapeutic seed oil.
   capitalized, obsolete, often
4. The ownership and claim of such land.
5. A rune in the Elder Futhark, ᛟ, associated with ancestral land.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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. […].””

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