Ælfgifu (also Ælfgyfu; Elfgifa, Elfgiva) is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, from ælf "elf" and gifu "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 of Ælfgifu to be used in formal and official contexts.
People called Ælfgifu:
Ælfgifu of Exeter, Anglo-Saxon saintÆlfgifu 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 EnglandÆlfgifu of York, first wife of Æthelred the UnreadyÆlfgifu, wife of Eadwig, king of EnglandEmma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the UnreadyÆlfgifu, wife of Ælfgar, Earl of MerciaÆlfgifu, daughter of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister of King Harold II of EnglandÆlfgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready and wife of Uhtred, Earl of NorthumbriaÆlfgyva, a woman of unknown identity in the Bayeux TapestryElgiva may refer to:
Elgiva, a marsh fly genus