[642]. Oisc in the form in which the earliest authorities give this name. Æsc is certainly later, and may have been adopted only when the original meaning of Oisc had become forgotten.
[643]. See the quotation from Adam of Bremen, p. 337.
[644]. Salomon and Saturn, pp. 148, 177.
[645]. Cod. Exon. p. 386. l. 8.
[646]. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 270, 314, 363, 413.
[647]. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 450, 781, 784, 1022, 1038. Some of these are not in Essex, but Hampshire.
[648]. The analogy of Thursday, which was unquestionably Thundersday, must be allowed its weight in considering these local names. Even Ðyrs itself, at one period of Anglosaxon development, might represent Ðunor, and the resemblance of names thus lead to a little straining of the true one.
[649]. Deut. Myth. p. 530 (ed. 1835).
[650]. Sal. Sat. p. 156.
[651]. Deut. Myth. p. 166.