Oslac

Old English Etymology From ang ōs god and ang lāc gift, offering. Cognate with no Aslak. Pronunciation Ōs-lāc Proper noun Ōslāc m ang male The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ang ⁊ þā wearð ēac ādræfed · dēormōd hǣleð,Ōslāc of earde, · ofer ȳða ġewealcofer ganotes bæð · gamolfeax hæleð,wīs ⁊ word snotor · ofer wætera ġeþringofer hwæles eðel · hāma berēafod. And then in like manner was Oslac, a beloved man,a gray-haired man, wise and learned,deprived of his home, driven out from his homeland,over the churning of the waves, over the gannet's bath, over the tumult of the waters, over the whale's homeland. References Electronic Sawyer S 774 (King Edgar to St Peter's, Thorney (i.e. Westminster Abbey); confirmation, reciting a bull of Pope John, of liberties and of land at Ham (in East Ham), Wennington, Essex; Morden, Surrey; Fanton (Hall) in North Benfleet, Essex; Aldenham, Herts.; Bleccenham and Lothereslege (both lost, in Hendon), Middx; Holwell, Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts.; Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex; Staines, with Teddington, Halliford, Feltham and Ashford, Middx), Ōslāc is mentioned as "Oslac" in the old text section.