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| * Odo, a character in the ] rough drafts. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, hesitated to take him out because his son, Christopher Tolkien, wanted the character kept. In the end, he was deleted. | * Odo, a character in the ] rough drafts. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, hesitated to take him out because his son, Christopher Tolkien, wanted the character kept. In the end, he was deleted. | ||
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| *Odo, a shorthand version of ]{{dubious}}. | *Odo, a shorthand version of ]{{dubious}}. | ||
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Odo is a name typically associated with historical figures from the middle ages and before. Odo is etymologically related to the names Otho and Otto, and to the French name Odon, and to the Italian names Ottone and Udo; all come from a Germanic word meaning "possessor of wealth". Odo has also been used as a name for fictional characters.
Historical
- Odo the Great (a.k.a. Eudes, Eudo, or Otto) (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine
- Odo, Count of Paris (c. 860 - 898), also called Eudes, a king of the Franks
- Saint Odo of Cluny (c. 878 - 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- Odo of Arezzo (fl. late 10th century) a composer and theorist
- Oda the Severe, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, 942-959, known as Oda the Severe
- Odo, Duke of Burgundy (944 – 965) was Duke of Burgundy
- Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 – 1097), Norman bishop and English earl
- Odo Colonna (1368 – 1431), Pope Martin V, also known as Oddone Colonna
- Odo O'Driscoll, Bishop of Ross, Ireland, bishop 1482-c. 1492, also known as Hugh O'Driscoll
Fictional
- Odo, a fictional shapeshifting being in the sci-fi series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Odo, the founder of an anarchist political movement in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1975 science-fiction novel, The Dispossessed
- Odo, a wizard about whom Rubeus Hagrid and Horace Slughorn sing a song in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- Odo, a character in the Lord of the Rings rough drafts. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, hesitated to take him out because his son, Christopher Tolkien, wanted the character kept. In the end, he was deleted.
Other uses
See also
- Eudes, an alternate form
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