Meaning of odal | Babel Free

Examples

“I kvart Fylke, som Harald lagde under seg, der sette han den Logi, at alt Landet og alle Gardarne skulde Kongen eiga. Med di tok han Odalen ifraa Bønderne, so dei aatte inkje lenger Gardarne sine, Kongen vardt den einaste Jord-Eigaren i Landet, og Bønderne luto reida Landskyld aat honom fyre Gardarne sine.”

In every county that Harald took power of, he applied the law that all the land and all the farms should belong to the king. With that, he took the property from the farmers, so that they no longer owned their farms; the king became the only land-owner in the country, and the farmers had to pay land-rent to him for their farms.