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Othala
- Literal meaning
- ancestral land
- Associated concepts
- lineage · home · heritage
- Ætt
- Týr's ætt
Othala names inherited property, the family land passed from one generation to the next. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem calls it very dear to every man, if he can enjoy at home what is right and customary. It's the rune of belonging: not the house you buy, the one that was already your family's.