Oystrygods
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- oystrygods gaggin fishygods: the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields in 451 A.D., in which the Ostrogoths and Attila the Hun were defeated by the Roman general Aetius and the Visigoths (king Theodorid)
- oyster gods
- oystery: resembling, or redolent of, oysters
