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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) A man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance..
If, then, at the time of the laws we look at the class of landowners who were prominent as odalmen or haulds—typical men with wergelds originally of 100 cows—they were not only men of full kindred whose full pedigree of freedom went back the necessary nine generations, but their grandfather’s grandfather must have possessed the land.
Use odalman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Odalman means (historical) A man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance..
Common synonyms include hauld.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If, then, at the time of the laws we look at the class of landowners who were prominent as odalmen or haulds—typical men with wergelds originally of 100 cows—they were not only men of full kindred whose full pedigree of freedom went back the necessary nine generations, but their grandfather’s grandfather must have possessed the land.
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