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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to FriðÞ Lv 27VIII (Frið 33)

[4] óðali ‘family homestead’: In early Norway, óðal ‘allodial lands, patrimony, homestead’ was the inalienable property of a family, inherited in the patriline (cf. Foote and Wilson 1980, 81-2). Here Friðþjófr, who should have enjoyed his father Þorsteinn’s óðal, was forced to watch it burn.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Foote, Peter G. and D. M. Wilson. 1980. The Viking Achievement. 2nd edn. Great Civilizations Series. London: Sidgwick & Jackson.

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