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Oswine
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Old English
Alternative forms
ang ᚩᚾᛋᚹᛁᚾᛁ
Etymology
From ang gem-pro *Ansuwiniz. Equivalent to ang ōs<t:(pagan) god> wine<t:friend>. Cognate with non Ásviðr.
Pronunciation
Ōs-wine
Proper noun
Ōswine m
ang male
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
ang An. DCCLXI Hēr wæs sē myċċla winter ⁊ Moll Norðhymbra cining ofslōh Ōswine æt Ædwines clife on octauo Īdūs Agustī. Year 761 In this year was the great winter, and King Moll of Northumbria slew Oswine at Edwin's cliff on [in Latin] the eighth Ides of August.
Declension
Ōswin sg yes
Descendants
en Oswin
References
Electronic Sawyer S 12 (Oswine, king of Kent, to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's, Canterbury) and Abbot Hadrian; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) of iron-bearing land, formerly belonging to the royal vill at Lyminge, Kent), Oswine is mentioned as "Oswynus".
Electronic Sawyer S 13 (Oswine, king of Kent, to Æbba, abbess (of Minster-in-Thanet); grant of 10 hides (manentes) in Sturry, Kent), Oswine is mentioned as "Oswinus".