Ragnhild or Ragnhildr is a Nordic feminine given name, and may refer to:

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Ragnhild (saint) Ragnhild or Ragnhildr is a Nordic feminine given name, and may refer to: People * Ragnhild (saint) (), Swedish saint * Ragnhildr, mother of Harald I of Norway * Ragnhildr ''in ríka'', daughter of Eric of Jutland, wife to Harald Fairhair and moth ...

(), Swedish saint * Ragnhildr, mother of

Harald I of Norway Harald Fairhair (; – ) was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from 872 to 930 and was the first King of Norway. Supposedly, two of his sons, Eric Bl ...

* Ragnhildr ''in ríka'', daughter of Eric of Jutland, wife to Harald Fairhair and mother of

Eric Bloodaxe Eric Haraldsson ( , ; c.930−954), nicknamed Bloodaxe ( , ) and Brother-Slayer (), was a Norwegians#Viking Age, Norwegian king. He ruled as List of Norwegian monarchs, King of Norway from 932 to 934, and twice as List of monarchs of Northumbr ...

, e.g. in ''Heimskringla'' * Ragnhildr, daughter of Erling Skialgson, brother-in-law to

Óláfr Tryggvason Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken ( Vingulmark, and Rånrike), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King ...

* Ragnhild, daughter of

Amlaíb mac Sitriuc Amlaíb mac Sitriuc ("Amhlaeibh, son of Sitric") or Olaf Sigtryggsson, was the son of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, and Sláine, the daughter of Brian Boru. A member of the Uí Ímair dynasty, his ancestors also include ...

of Dublin and mother of Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd * Ragnhild (962-1002), under the Slavic name of

Rogneda of Polotsk Rogneda Rogvolodovna (; Christian name: ''Anastasia''; ), also known as Ragnhild (Ragnheiðr), is a person mentioned in the ''Primary Chronicle'' as having been a princess of Polotsk, the daughter of Rogvolod (Ragnvald), who came from Scandinav ...

princess of Principality of Polotsk, princess consort of Rus' * Princess Ragnhild of Norway (1930–2012) *

Ragnhild Aamodt Ragnhild Margrethe Aamodt (born 9 September 1980) is a Norwegian former handball player. She retired in 2012, while playing for the Norwegian 2nd tier club Sarpsborg. Until March 2009 she also played for the Norwegian national team. Life and ...

(born 1980), Norwegian handball player *

Ragnhild Aarflot Kalland Ragnhild Aarflot Kalland (born 4 September 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal during the terms 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. On t ...

(born 1960), Norwegian politician for the Centre Party * Ragnhild Barland (1934–2015), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *

Ragnhild Eriksdotter Ragnhild Eriksdotter (died c. 984) was the daughter of Eric Bloodaxe and his wife, Gunnhild. According to the ''Orkneyinga Saga'', she was an ambitious and scheming woman who sought power through the men of the family of Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson, w ...

(died 984), daughter of Eric Bloodaxe * Ragnhild Haga (born 1991), Norwegian cross-country skier *

Hildr Hrólfsdóttir Hildr or Ragnhildr Hrólfsdóttir was a 9th-century woman who is referenced in various Old Norse sources including '' Óláfs saga helga'', ''Orkneyinga saga'', and ''Landnámabók'' and is also one of the few female skalds from whom verses surviv ...

(Ragnhildr Hrólfsdóttir), daughter of Hrólfr nefja and wife of Rognvald Eysteinsson *

Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir (born 29 April 1981) is an Icelandic actress and television presenter who is the assistant director of RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster. She is a former Miss Iceland. Life and career Ragnhildur was born ...

(born 1981), Icelandic television personality * Ragnhild A. Lothe (born 1958), Norwegian microbiologist and cancer researcher *

Ragnhild Michelsen Ragnhild Michelsen Steen (23 June 1911 – 30 September 2000) was a Norwegian actress. Life Ragnhild Michelsen was born in Narvik on 22 June 1911, the daughter of Carl F. Michelsen and Clara Kokmann. Her first stage experience came while attend ...

(1911–2000), Norwegian actress *

Ragnhild Mowinckel Ragnhild Mowinckel (born 12 September 1992) is a retired Norwegian World Cup alpine ski racer, representing the club SK Rival. Career Born in Molde, Møre og Romsdal, Mowinckel won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in 2012 in t ...

(born 1992), Norwegian alpine skier *

Ragnhild Sigurdsdotter The name Ragnhild Sigurdsdotter may refer to two different figures from Old Norse literature, an amalgam of them, or a purely fictitious figure. * The wife of Halfdan the Black (c. 810 – c. 860) * A woman who lived during the late 9th and/ ...

, daughter of Sigurd Hart, identified as the mother of Harald I of Norway in the ''Ragnarssona þáttr'' *

Ragnhild Sollund Ragnhild Sollund is a Norwegian professor and author. She has published widely in the area of migration, violence, police racial profiling and green criminology particularly relating to wildlife conservation. Sollund is internationally recogniz ...

, Norwegian professor and author *

Ragnhildis Olafsdottir Ragnhildis Olafdottir, also known as Ragnhild, (c.1115 - unknown) was the daughter of king Óláfr Guðrøðarson of the Kingdom of Mann and Ingibiorg Hakonsdottir, making her a granddaughter of Haakon Paulsson. Ragnhild married the Norse-Gael ...

(fl. 1140), daughter of

Óláfr Guðrøðarson Olaf Guthfrithson or Anlaf Guthfrithson ( ; ; ; died 941) was a Hiberno-Scandinavian (Irish-Viking) leader who ruled Dublin and Viking Northumbria in the 10th century. He was the son of Gofraid ua Ímair and great-grandson of Ímar, making ...

and wife of

Somerled Somerled (died 1164), known in Middle Irish as Somairle, Somhairle, and Somhairlidh, and in Old Norse as Sumarliði , was a mid-12th-century Norse-Gaelic lord who, through marital alliance and military conquest, rose in prominence to create the ...

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*Ragnhild, the daughter of archaeologist Sigurd Swenson in the film ''

Gåten Ragnarok ''Gåten Ragnarok '' (lit. "The Riddle Ragnarok") or just simply ''Ragnarok'' is a 2013 Norwegian fantasy adventure film about the legendary story of Ragnarök. Archaeologist Sigurd Swenson sets off to Finnmark in search of new physical evidence ...

'' (2013) *, a number of ships with this name *Ragnhild Hansen, one of the children stolen by the witches in ''

The Witches (novel) ''The Witches'' is a 1983 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where c ...

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