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Ottar
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Discussion of the name
Ottar is an Old Danish masculine name (the Old Norse form is Óttarr) probably comprising the elements ótti ‘terror, fear’ and either *harjar ‘army’ or geirr ‘spear’; it also occurs in the Anglicized form Ohthere, as Oittir in the Irish annals and was also adopted into continental usage (Forssner 1916: 196; von Feilitzen 1937: 342; Fellows Jensen 1968: 207-6; Radner 1978: 180; Reaney 1997: 332). In DB there is a notable distinction between the forms for TRE holders (typically Otre) and the TRW forms (typically Other); the latter all seem to represent men of continental origin and are not included here.There are several related entries in the PASE corpus. Ohthere 1 was a visitor to Alfred 8’s court in the late ninth century; Ohtor 1-2 were early tenth-century earls; Ohtor 3 was a brother at Chertsey in the late eleventh century; Óttirr 1 represents a probable record of Ohtor 1 in Irish sources; and Ottar 1 is a catch-all for occurrences in DB. To accommodate these variants under the present head-form the profiles given below commence with Ottar 7.
Bibliography
Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)Radner 1978: Fragmentary Annals of Ireland, ed. J. N. Radner (Dublin, 1978)
Reaney 1997: P. H. Reaney, A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd edn revised R. M. Wilson (Oxford, 1997)
von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)
Forms of the name
Spellings in Domesday Book: Otre, OtroSpellings in Exon: Otrus
Forms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Óttarr
Phillimore edition: Othere, Ottarr
Alecto edition: Ottar
Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB
List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB
Holder 1066
| Shire | Phil. ref. | Vill | DB Spelling | Holder 1066 | Lord 1066 | Tenant-in-Chief 1086 | 1086 Subtenant | Fiscal Value | 1066 Value | 1086 Value | Conf. | Show on Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devon | 15,53 | Wedrerige | Otre | Ottar 'of Wedrerige' | - | Robert, count of Mortain | Reynold de Vautortes | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.15 | D | Map |
| Devon | 17,26 | Loventor | Otre | Ottar 'of Ford' | - | Judhael of Totnes | Ralph de La Pommeraye | 0.50 | 0.25 | 0.50 | B | Map |
| Devon | 17,28 | Lupton | Otre | Ottar 'of Ford' | - | Judhael of Totnes | Ralph de La Pommeraye | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.50 | B | Map |
| Devon | 17,56 | Ford | Otre | Ottar 'of Ford' | - | Judhael of Totnes | Ralph de La Pommeraye | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | C | Map |
| Devon | 19,10 | Haccombe | Otre | Ottar 'of Ford' | - | William Chevre | Robert 'the man of William Chevre' | 0.50 | 1.00 | 1.50 | D | Map |
| Shropshire | 4,3,10 | Gretton | Otro | Ottar 'of Gretton' | - | Roger, earl | Reynold de Bailleul | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.13 | B | Map |
| Shropshire | 4,3,10 | Gretton | Otro | Ottar 'of Gretton' | - | Roger, earl | Reynold de Bailleul | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.13 | B | Map |
| Yorkshire | 1E17 | Flixton | Otre | Ottar 'of Flixton' | - | William, king | - | 5.00 | 1.25 | 1.25 | B | Map |
| Yorkshire | 1E25 | Folkton | Otre | Ottar 'of Flixton' | - | William, king | - | 4.50 | 0.75 | 0.75 | B | Map |
| Yorkshire | 1E36 | Langtoft | Otre | Ottar 'of Flixton' | - | William, king | - | 3.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | C | Map |
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