Egil Hovland and an Audley End

The Deaths in 2013 site has announced that Norwegian Composer, Egil Hovland, had passes away today

• Egil Hovland, 88, Norwegian composer.[1]

Of course, the fact that he was 88 at the time of his death stood out as fitting in with the "88" pattern cluster that has occurred in many of my posts as of late, enough to warrant further investigation.  Note the etymology behind his first and last name:

Egil: From the Old Norse name Egill, a diminutive of names that began with the element agi "awe, terror". 

Hovland:  Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads, named in Old Norse as Hofland, from hof ‘pagan temple’, ‘place of worship’ + land ‘(piece of) land’.

Note as well, the following excerpts from his wiki page:

Egil Hovland (October 18, 1924 – February 5, 2013) was a Norwegian composer.

Fritt Ord Honorary Award.[1]

"Priser – Fritt Ords Honnør" (in Norwegian). Fritt Ord. Retrieved 22 May 2010

When I checked the Fritt Ord Award wiki page, I noted something very audd.  There were three people in the list having the last name "ODD", note this excerpt:

These are the laureates of the Fritt Ord Award:[2]
1986 : Åge Rønning, Odd Kvaal Pedersen, Radio Immigranten, Anders Bratholm
1992 : Odd Abrahamsen, Arquebus Krigshistorisk museum, Svein Ellingsen, Erik Hillestad, Egil Hovland
2011 : Odd S. Lovoll

The reason why I used the word "audd" above in lieu of "odd", is due to the fact that it had cropped up a while back in my Toumai Blog, after investigating patterns like this.  To read my May 19, 2010 post where odd becomes "audd"click on the title/link : Costs, Cross's and an Audley End (update 3) ;-)(-;

Note the etymology of the name/word: 

Derived from Old Norse oddr meaning "point of a sword". 

odd (adj.) 

c.1300, "constituting a unit in excess of an even number," from Old Norse oddi "third or additional number," as in odda-maðr "third man, odd man (who gives the casting vote)," odda-tala "odd number." The literal meaning of Old Norse oddi is "point of land, angle" (related via notion of "triangle" to oddr "point of a weapon"); from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz "pointed upward" (cf. Old English ord "point of a weapon, spear, source, beginning," Old Frisian ord "point, place," Dutch oord "place, region," Old High German ort "point, angle," GermanOrt "place"), from PIE *uzdho- (cf. Lithuanian us-nis "thistle"). None of the other languages, however, shows the Old Norse development from "point" to "third number." Used from late 14c. to indicate a surplus over any given sum.