Translattion of ödetorp

[Nancy Erickson]

Hello,
In the parish record books I sometimes see the word ödetorp in association with the name of the farm, such as Wimantorp as the village or estate, and then ödetorp before the farm name.  I'm assuming it refers to the smaller torp being part of the larger one.
 
I have some good translation tools, but I haven't been able to find that word.
 
Thanks you!
 
Nancy Erickson
Seattle, Washington, USA

[Gunnar Håkansson]

You may look at the single word öde to find out, that in this case it means not in use or wasted. Probably the torp (croft) was no more used as a croft (so the fields were used by the land-owner instead), but inhabited by someone else (statare or inhyses).

[Nancy Erickson]

Thank you Gunnar, that makes sense.  Obviously I need a better dictionary!