> I have thought of this before, but never got around to
> adressing it, but this is to my eyes a very odd definition
> of odal. In scandinavian (at least swedish) practice odal
> means the exact opposite: odal is property that is _not_
> shared, but exclusively owned by one single part.
And this has caused a lot of confusion. I think a term like 'common'
would have been clearer i.e. the clan holds all land in common.
Ah well.