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Olof is the Swedish variant, Olaf is Norwegian. This difference isn’t modern, it goes back to the Viking Age. Further Aud and Olaf are said to live in Sweden in 880 and Olaf refrences Baltic women - this clearly suggests they live nowhere near the Norwegian border. |
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| Suggested by: | › Swede |
| Added: | › 20th December 2005 |
| Updated: | › 9th March, 2006 |
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2 Comments about “Olaf isn’t a Swedish name.”
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December 30th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Doesn’t the term “baltic women” inclued women from all 4 countries in North europe? Finland, Iceland, Danmark, Norweigen and Sweden?
I’m a swede too, but am not too bright on the acient times. Or the names used..
May 15th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
I’d say “Baltic woman” refrences a woman from one of the baltic tribes, i.e. modern-day Latvia and Lithuania.
Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland being the Nordic, not Baltic, countries…