Aelgifu

Aelgifu

Ælfgifu, also Elgiva, Elfgifu, may refer to:

*Aelgifu of Northampton, first 'handfast' wife of Canute the Great
*the wife of King Edmund I of England
*Elgiva, wife of King Eadwig
*the first wife of Ethelred the Unready
*Emma of Normandy, second wife of Ethelred the Unready, called Ælfgifu in Old English sources


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