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fuch high antiquity, that fome Danifh writers derive its 
foundation and name from Odin, the god and hero of the 
Gothic nations. “Its name certainly occurs (fays Mr. 
Coxe) in the earlieft ages of the Danifh liiftory; and it 
was atown of great note long before Copenhagen exifted.” 
Odenfee is the fee of a bifhop, and contains three 
churches,befides the cathedral. It has upwards of thirty 
large fliips, befides fmaller veffels, belonging to it; and 
many foreign ones trade here. The king has a palace 
here ; and, in the year 1621, Chriftian IV. erefted a col¬ 
lege, and endowed it liberally for four profeffors. Oden¬ 
fee fupplies thegreateft part of the army, and efpecially 
the cavalry, with all their leather accoutrements; and is 
particularly famous for gloves. Here is a confiderable 
cloth-manufa&ure, a fugar-houfe, and a manufacture for 
foap. The Danifh language is by many thought to be 
fpoken here in its greateft purity. The number of inha¬ 
bitants is about 5000. Lat. 55.4. N. Ion. 10.24. E. 
O'DENSHOLM, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland : 
near the coaft of Ruffia. Lat. 59. 15. N. Ion. 23. 15. E. 
ODEN'SOS, a town of Germany, in the territory of 
Nuremberg: three miles eaft of Lauf. 
ODENS'WI, a town of Sweden, in the territory ofSma- 
land : feventy-two miles north of Calmar. 
O'DER, a river of Germany, which rifes in Moravia, 
about eighteen miles north-eaft from Olmutz; paffes by 
Odrau, Oppau ; foon afterwards enters Silefia, paffes by 
Oderberg, Ratibau, Kofel, Krappitz, Oppeln, Brieg, 
Ohlau, Breflau, Leubus, Gros Glogau, Beuthen; then 
enters the New Mark of Brandenburg, paffes by Croffen, 
Frankfort, Cuftrin, Schwedt, Stettin, Damm, &c. It then 
forms a large lake, called the FriJ'ch Haff, and, dividing 
intofeveral branches, empties itfelf into the Baltic. Two 
confiderable iflands, Ufedom and Wollin, are found at its 
mouth. It is navigable beyond Ratibor. 
O'DER, a river of France, which runs into the fea 
nine miles below Quimper, in the department of the Fi- 
nifferre. 
O'DER (Alt,) a river of Silefia, which runs into the 
Oder one mile north-weft of Breflau. 
O'DER. See Odrau. 
O'DERBERG, a town of Brandenburg, .in the Middle 
Mark, on the Oder : twenty-five miles north-weft of Cuf¬ 
trin, and thirty-five north-eaft of Berlin. Lat. 52. 56. N. 
Ion. 14. 5. E. 
O'DERBERG, or Bogumin, a town of Silefia, in the 
principality of Tefchen, on the Oder: fifteen miles north- 
weft of Tefchen, and twelve fouth-fouth-weft of Ratibor. 
Lat. 49. 50. N. Ion. 18. 18. E. 
OD'ERIC de PORTENEAU', a Minorite of Porde- 
none in the Frioul, flourifhed in the fourteenth century. 
He was a great traveller ; and, having vifited a confidera¬ 
ble part of Afia, dictated at Padua, in 1330, fome time 
after his return, to a monk named William de Solono, an 
account of his travels, but without any order, according 
as the circumftances occurred to his memory. This ac¬ 
count, intitled De Mirabilibns Mundi, together with the 
author’s life, may be feen in Bollandi ACta SanCtorum, 
and in the third volume of Wadding’s Annales Minorum. 
Oderic travelled at the fame time as fir John Mandeville ; 
but it appears that they never happened to meet. He fet 
out from Conftantinople as a miffionary in 1318, and, 
paffing through Armenia, proceeded to Perfia, where he 
continued fome time. He then embarked at Ormus, and 
landed at Tana, in the ifland of Salfette, from which he 
went to the pepper-coaft, that is, Malabar. He next vi¬ 
fited the ifland of Sumatra ; and, returning to Hindooftan, 
travelled thence to China, where he refided three years, 
at the court of the great chan, in the city of Pekin. On 
his return, he paffed through Prefter John’s country, the 
capital of which was named Kofan. His relation termi¬ 
nated at Thibet; and neither he nor his editor tell by 
what route, or in what manner, he returned thence to 
Europe. It is worthy of remark, that Oderic often con¬ 
firms, with an oath, fuch parts of his relation as appear 
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incredible. He died at Udinain 1331. “ La Vitae Viaggi 
del beato Oderico da Udine,” was publifhed at Udina, by 
thebarnabite Bafilius Afquini, in 1737, 8vo. An account 
of Oderic’s travels is printed in Italian, in the fecond vo¬ 
lume of Ramufio’s Collection ; and it is inferted alfo in 
the fecond volume of Hacluyt, under the title of “ Iti- 
nerarium fratris Odorici fratrum minorum de mirabilibus 
orientalium Tartarorum.” Another work, “ De variis 
Ritibus et Conditionibus liujus Mundi,” is afcribed to 
him; but Voffius confiders it to be the fame as the prece¬ 
ding, under a different title. Gen. Biog. 
ODERLIUN'GA, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Schonen : nineteen miles eaft of Engelholm. 
O'DERNHEIM, a town of the grand duchy of Heffe : 
thirteen miles north-weft of Worms, and fourteen fouth 
ofMentz. Lat. 49.45. N. Ion. 8.10. E. 
O'DERNHEIM, a town of Heffe, in the duchy of Deux 
Ponts : four miles north of Meiffenheim, and twenty- 
five fouth-weft of Mentz. Lat. 49.44. N. Ion. 7. 37. E. 
O'DERQUAT, a town of the duchy of Bremen : fif¬ 
teen miles north of Stade. 
O'DER SEI'FF, a lake of Silefia, in the principality of 
Breflaw : two miles fouth of Dyherrenfurth. 
ODER'ZO, a town of Italy, in the Trevifan, formerly 
epifcopal, but the fee was removed to Ceneda. It was a 
Roman colony, called Opiturgium; and had anciently a 
port on the Adriatic, with which it communicated by 
the lagunes. It contains about 3400 fouls: thirteen 
miles louth-eaft of Ceneda, and thirteen north-eaft of 
Trevigio. 
ODESCAL'CHI (Marc-Antonio), entitled to com¬ 
memoration by his virtues, was a gentleman of Como in 
the Milanefe. He embraced the ecclefiaftical profeffion, 
and was ordained prieft. His coufin, cardinal Odefcalchi, 
afterwards pope Innocent XI. perfuaded him to come to 
Rome ; but he refufed all the dignities and honours 
which his merit and connexion might have procured him, 
and devoted hirnfelf folely to works of humanity. He 
fought out, and liberally relieved, poor families afhamed 
to beg, found employment for thofe who were able to 
work, and took particular care of the lick and infirm. 
Obferving that, notwithftanding the great number of hof- 
pitals in Rome, many ltrangers were obliged to pafs the 
church-porches and under the porticoes of palaces, he 
turned his own houfe into an hofpital, for the reception 
of deftitute foreigners of every nation indifferently, and 
of poor from the adjacent country. He bought fome ad¬ 
jacent houfes to enlarge his accommodations, and in a 
fliort time fet up a thoufand beds. He hirnfelf waited 
upon, and inftrufted, the objefts of his charity, and not 
only lodged but clothed them. He frequently went 
through the city in the evening in fearch of the houfe- 
lefs, whom, when he found, he took into his carriage, 
and conveyed to his hofpital. In thefe godlike offices he 
employed hirnfelf till his death in 1670; and he bequeathed 
all his property for the maintenance of his hofpital. The 
cardinal, his relation, took the inftitution under his par¬ 
ticular care ; and, when he became pope, rebuilt it mag¬ 
nificently, and enlarged it fo as to contain three thou¬ 
fand beds. 
O'DESPUN, or Odespunck, a French prieft, and con¬ 
fiderable collector of ecclefiaftical documents, of the 17 th 
century, was a native of Chinon in the Touraine; but 
nothing of the time of his birth and death is known. He 
was employed by the French clergy in forming a collec¬ 
tion of their Memoirs, which was publifhed in two vo¬ 
lumes folio, in the year 1646. He alfo publifhed “ A 
Colle&ion of the Councils of France, held after that of 
Trent,” which is regarded as a decent continuation of 
the Collections of Father Sirmond; and was fucceeded by 
the Supplement of La Lande, in 1666. Odefpun pub¬ 
lifhed alfo a work “ On the Orders of Chivalry,” in feve- 
ral volumes. 
ODES'SA, or Odessus, a fea-port town of Ruffia, in 
the government of Ekaterinoflav, on the coaft of the Black 
Sea, 
