Oesel

[ œ-zuhl ]

noun

1. German name of Saaremaa.

Example Sentences

Flies and butterflies are forms which the souls are believed by some races to take, and the Esthonians of the island of Oesel think that the gusts of wind which whirl tornado-like through the roads are the souls of old women seeking what they can find.

From Project Gutenberg

The Lutheran church in Livonia, with the island of Oesel, suffered considerable, and according to the law of the land irreparable, loss by the secession of sixty or seventy thousand Letts and Esthonians to the orthodox church under the widespread delusion that thereby their economic position would be improved.

From Project Gutenberg

But on 16th Oct. the Germans, capturing Oesel Island in the Dvina, took the first step to the subjugation of the northern armies, and continued to take numbers of willing prisoners on the Riga front during the rest of that month.

From Project Gutenberg

The Germans still held four Estonian islands blocking the mouth of the Gulf of Riga�the large islands of Dag� and Oesel, the smaller inshore islands of Vormsi and Muhu.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon.

From Time Magazine Archive