Lexicographical Neighbors of Odallers
Literary usage of Odallers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland by David Balfour (1859)
"On the disgrace of Lord Robert, it seems to have been designed to lure the
odallers, by similar terms, to accept of feudal confirmation of their rights; ..."
2. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1884)
"Many small proprietors, too—odallers—had heritages mixed up everywhere with the
lands of the quondam earls and with those of the bishop ; and while they ..."
3. The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time: With Illustrations, Maps, and Plans by James King Hewison (1893)
"... to the old odallers, or free men, who alone had a voice in the Thing. ...
or odallers, who were granted feu-charters as vassals by King James IV. in ..."
4. The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present State by Tudor J. R., John Horne, William Irvine Fortescue, Peter White, Benjamin Nieve Peach (1883)
"Skat was paid by the odallers within Earldom to the Earl, and by him to the King.
The odallers and Odal-born constituted the Al-thing, parliament or general ..."
5. Orkney and Shetland Miscellany of the Viking Club by Viking Society for Northern Research (1908)
"Were they, in fact, such enterprising odallers as had adapted themselves to
altered conditions and made a fair wind out of a foul ? ..."
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