Ælfgifu

Ælfgifu (also Ælfgyfu, earlier Elfgiva, Elgiva, etc.) is an Old English feminine personal name. It may refer to:

• Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, wife of King Edmund I of England
• Ælfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of England
• Ælfgifu of York, first wife of Æthelred the Unready
• Emma of Normandy, second wife of Æthelred the Unready and second wife of Cnut the Great, called Ælfgifu in Old English sources
• Ælfgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Cnut the Great. Her name became Álfífa in Old Norse.
• 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
• Elgiva (Diptera), a marsh fly genus

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