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
Ossian (given name) Ossian (given name) Ossian is an Anglicised form of the Irish "Oisín" and the Scottish Gaelic "Oisein". The latter names are derived from a byname constructed from the element "os" ("stag"). Another Anglicised form of "Oisín" is "Osian". "Ossian" was one of several names popularised by the romantic works of James Macpherson (died 1796), composer of so-called Ossianic poetry. In consequence, it and other Ossianic names—such as "Malvina", "Minona", "Orla", "Oscar", and "Selma"—were enthusiastically adopted in Scandinavia in the nineteenth century. The specific adoption of "Ossian" in Denmark does not appear to have been a direct result of the works