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01 / Meaning & origin
Ælla is a masculine given name.
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04 / Through time
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Ælla— “elf friend”
A bishop of Lichfield, whose name was Ælfwine, was always called Ælla, and thus there is reason to suppose that _elves_ named both the Ælle of Deira, whose name caused Gregory the Great to say that Alleluja should be sung in those regions, and also the later Ælla, who put Ragnar Lodbrog to death. Otherwise these would be referred to the word in Gothic, _aljan_, meaning battle, found in the Old German Ellanheri and Ellanperaht.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter IV (Heroic Names Of The Nibelung), Section XIII (Elberich) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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king of Northumbria in the middle of the 9th century
King of Deira
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06 / Behind the facts
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