Oswulf
Oswulf is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of os (god) and wulf (wolf), cognate with Norse Ásulfr and Icelandic Ásólfur.
Variants:
Osuulf [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 1].
Osulf [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 5].
Ôsvulf (-ulf) [Ludwig Ettmüller 1851 Vorda vealhstôd Engla and Seaxna, page 11].
Ōswulf [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 556].
Oswulf [Henry Harrison 1907-1918 Surnames of the United Kingdom 2: 55].
Oswvlf [John Insley, David Rollason, & Peter McClure 2007 The Durham Liber Vitae 2: 141].
Ósƿulf [Oswin Kinsey 2016 English Compound Names, 2nd edition, page 82].
Prototheme:
os = god [Jay Treat 1983 Dragon 7 (10): 57].
Deuterotheme:
Wulf = Wᴏʟꜰ [William Smith 1873 A Complete Etymology of the English Language, page 187].
Usage:
Oswulf was the name of King of Northumbria [William Searle 1899 Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, page 307]. “Her Eadberht Norðhymbra cining feng to scære. and Osulf his sunu feng to þam rice, and rixade i gear, and hine ofslogon his hiwan on ix kl’ Augusti” [John Earle 1865 Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 1st edition, page 53, annal (E) 757]: “Here Eadbert king of the Northumbrians assumed the tonsure, and his son Oswulf succeeded to the kingdom and reigned one year; and his household slew him on ix kal. Aug. (July 24th)” (Edward Gomme 1909 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 43, annal 757 [E]).
