Crossword-Solution: ODALLER 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Footnote 1: For etymological reasons, I prefer the terms ODAL and ODALLER to the more usual but less correct forms of UDAL and UDALLER.

Such was the right of the Odaller; nor was that of the ODAL-BAARN a mere future contingency, but a present patent of nobility and privilege, not by writ or summons from a king, but by grace of God, and right of birth as a FRIBORINN and THINGMAN.

The present or contingent possession of land by Odal-ræd was thus the foundation of every right or franchise; and in the infancy of Odal society, no Law could be made or administered, no Tax imposed or levied, and no Power assumed or exercised by King or Jarl, without the sanction of the ALTHING or _Council of Freemen_, where King, Jarl, and Bishop, Odaller and Odal-born, were all and equally THINGMEN.

Whether this were at first their right as actual or presumed Odal-born Freemen, a concession to their sacred office, or a priestly assumption, their presence in the Thing was often salutary, sometimes to the Jarl, sometimes to the Odaller, either as Councillors for the wisdom of the serpent, or as peacemakers for the gentleness of the dove.

But equal and independent as they were, each secondary Odal retained a Suffragan regard for the primal Odalsjord, which gave name to the _Tun_, _Hrepp_ or _Scat-hald_, and the Odaller of the _Garth_ or _Quoy_ respected and acknowledged in the Odaller of the _Bol_ or _Bu_, the HOFDING or Chief of the HREPP and SKAT-BRETHREN, as naturally as the Tacksman and Bol-man felt their inferiority to both.