Note 221 — Chapter XVIII · DRESS OF WOMEN.
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The name of Ælgyva, mentioned on the tapestry, is evidently the same as the Northern Alfifa.
“Svein, son of King Knut and Alfifa, daughter of Alfrun jarl, had been put in Jomsborg to rule Vindland” (St. Olaf’s Saga, c. 252).