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Osmod
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Old English
Etymology
From ang ōs god and ang mōd mind, heart, spirit.
Pronunciation
Ōs-mōd
Proper noun
Ōsmōd m
ang male
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
ang An. DCCCXXXIII Hēr ġefeaht Eċġbriht cing wið XXXV sċiphlæsta æt Carrum ⁊ þǣr wearð myċel wæl ġesleġen, ⁊ þā Denisċan ahton wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ Hereferð ⁊ Wiġþeġn, tweġen bisċeopas, forðferdan, ⁊ Duda ⁊ Ōsmōd, tweġen ealdormenn, forðferdon. Year 833 In this year King Edgebright fought against thirty-five shiploads of men at Charmouth, and many were slain, and the Danes took control of the battlefield. And two bishops, Herefrith and Wigthegn, and two aldermen, Duda and Osmod, died.
References
Electronic Sawyer S 1513 (Ceolwynn to the community at Winchester for their refectory; bequest of 15 hides at Alton Priors, Wilts.), a man named Osmod is mentioned as "Osmodes" and "Osmodi" in the old text section.