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Ælfgifu

Ælfgifu

Ælfgifu(alsoÆlfgyfu;Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva) is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, fromælf“elf” andgifu“gift”.
When Emma of Normandy, the later mother of Edward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she was given the native Anglo-Saxon name ofÆlfgifuto be used in formal and official contexts.[1]

Latinized forms of the name include forms such asAelueua, Alueua, Alueue, Elgiva, Elueua, Aluiua, Aueue(etc.).

People called Ælfgifu:

  • Ælfgifu of Exeter, Anglo-Saxon saint

  • Ælfgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Cnut the Great. Her name became Álfífa in Old Norse.

  • Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, wife of King Edmund I of England

  • Ælfgifu of York, first wife of Æthelred the Unready

  • Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of England asElgiva, the female protagonist ofEdwy and Elgiva, a 1790 verse tragedy by Frances Burney

  • Emma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the Unready

  • Ælfgifu, wife of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia

  • Ælfgifu, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister of King Harold II of England

  • Ælfgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready and wife of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria

  • Ælfgyva, a woman of unknown identity in the Bayeux Tapestry

Elgivamay also refer to:

  • Elgiva, a marsh fly genus

References

[1]

Citation Linkbooks.google.chFlorence of Worcester:Emmam, Saxonica Alfgivam vocatam; see Bolton Corney,The Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1839, p. 44.

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[2]

Citation Linkbooks.google.chp. 44

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[3]

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