athelbonde (ODan) noun

One who owned inherited land and remained in an old village, as opposed to one moving to a new village located by the fields. Mostly appearing as otholbondæ (cf. oþal) and often in the phrase mæþ tyltær eþ oþolbondæ ‘with an oath of twelve land-owning men’ (SkL).

landowner ODan JyL 2
landowning man ODan SkL passim
real householder ODan JyL 2
settled townsman ODan SkBL Refs:

Andersen 2014, 23; Tamm and Vogt, eds, 2016, 307