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Ælfgar
Boy NameAnglo-Saxon Origin
Meaning
Old English form of ALGAR.
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Ælfgar of Selwood
Ælfgar (Algar), according to 16th-century antiquarian John Leland, was a saint venerated at a chapel in the forest of Selwood, three miles from Mells (near Frome), Somerset.
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