When Olia Amundsdatter Langfoss was born on 6 March 1763, in Langfoss, Hedmark, Norway, her father, Amund Arnesen Langfoss, was 48 and her mother, Anne Amundsdatter, was 44. She married Erland Sørensen Gylterud on 21 July 1782, in Eidskog, Hedmark, Norway. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1796, in Vinger, Hedmark, Norway, at the age of 33, and was buried in Eidskog, Hedmark, Norway.
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name of Scandinavian origin, originally derived from the Old Norse adjective heilagr ‘prosperous, successful’. It was imported by the Scandinavian settlers who founded the first Russian state in the 9th century. St Olga of Kiev ( d. 969 ) was a Varangian noblewoman who was baptized at Byzantium in about 957 and set about converting her people. The name was introduced to the English-speaking world in the late 19th century, but retains a distinctively Russian flavour.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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