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Used sometimes in Scandinavia. Today it is used rarely, though it was once quite common.

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"Wolf battle", from Old Norse.

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Ulvhild Håkansdotter, medieval Scandinavian queen

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Ulvhild Lavransdatter, a character in Sigrid Undset's "Kristin Lavransdatter". She is the first of Kristin's two younger sisters and was paralyzed as a child in an accident involving a roof beam. She later dies, and Kristin's other sister, Ramborg, and her husband name their daughter after her.