Oslac

From ōs (“god”) and lāc (“gift, offering”). Cognate with Norwegian Aslak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːsˌlɑːk/, [ˈoːzˌlɑːk]

Ōslāc m

1. a male given name
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     ⁊ þā wearð ēac ādræfed · dēormōd hǣleð,
     Ōslāc of earde, · ofer ȳða ġewealc
     ofer ganotes bæð · gamolfeax hæleð,
     wīs ⁊ word snotor · ofer wætera ġeþring
     ofer 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.

• 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.