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Kristoffer Kruken – Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 15 774 males with the given name Olav living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Dat verd, naar han Sant-Olav kjem atter nordantil.
It will be when Saint Olaf comes up north again.
1862, Eirik M. Torvaldsson Sommer, Noregs Saga i Stuttmaal, elder Fortelning um dei største Tilburdarne med Nordmennerne og deira Tilstand i Noreg gjenom Forntidi til vaare Dagar:
Ein Son etter Ingjald var Olav, han flydde med myket Folk vest etter til Skogen immillom Noreg og Sverike, der rudde han Skogen med Øks og Eld og bygde Landet;
A son after Ingjald was Olav, he went with lots of people west to the forest between Norway and Sweden, where he cleared the forest with axe and fire and build the land;
Denne Kongssonen var Olav, son til Kong Tryggve Olavsson og Sonesons Son hans Harald Haarfagre.
This prince was Olaf, son of king Tryggvi Olafsson and great grandson of Harald Fairhair.
2001, Toro (commercial; television):
Olav, du må vakne; indianarane kjem.
Olav, wake up; the Native Americans are coming.
Usage notes
Traditionally one of the most common names in Norway, also in the forms Ola and Ole. Also the name of the 11th-century king and patron saint of Norway, Heilag-Olav(“Saint Olaf”).
Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 14 853 males with the given name Olav living in Norway on January 1st 2024, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 30th July, 2024.