Hart (deer) Hart (deer) Hart is an archaic word for "stag" (from Old English "heorot", "deer" – compare with modern Dutch "hert", medieval French "hart", German "Hirsch" and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish "hjort", also "deer"). Specifically, "hart" was used in medieval times to describe a red deer stag more than five years old. In medieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag". To be a "hart" was its
Oscar (given name) Oscar (given name) Oscar or Oskar is a masculine given name derived from either Irish or Old English, via Proto-Germanic. It is cognate to Danish Asger or Asker, German Ansgar, Faroese and Icelandic Ásgeir. Oscar is the third most popular name for males born in Sweden in 2013. Oskar is ranked 51 in terms of the most popular male names in Sweden. The name may be derived from two elements in Irish: the first, "os", means "deer"; the second element, "car", means "loving", thus "deer-loving one" or the like. The name is borne by a character in Irish mythology—Oscar, grandson