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3 unusual facts about Ottar


Óttar

Ottar Brox (1932–), a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party

Ottar Dahl (1924–), a Norwegian historian and historiographer

Ottar (king), a Swedish king who appears in Beowulf as Ohthere


Bjarne Fiskum

Bjarne Ivar Fiskum (born 27 August 1939 in Harran, Grong, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway) is a Norwegian violinist, conductor and composer, and the son of the orchestra leader Ottar Fiskum.

Elise Ottesen-Jensen

A vicar's daughter, Ottar was born as Elise Ottesen, the 17th of 18 children, in the municipality of Høyland (incorporated into Sandnes in 1965) in Rogaland county, Norway.

Kristin Lavransdatter

: Actors: Torunn Lødemel, Astrid Folstad, Paul-Ottar Haga, Kirsti Eline Torhaug, Joachim Calmeyer

Óttar of Dublin

Several versions of the Brut y Tywysogion record that an Óttar based in Dublin, and described as the "son of the other Óttar," was active fighting as a mercenary in Wales in 1144.

He is claimed as an ancestor by the Cotter family of County Cork, Ireland, whose original name was Mac Oitir (son of Óttar), 'through Óttar's son Thorfin and grandson Therulfe.

Óttar, the Irish spelling Otir is used, appears as a character in The Summer of the Danes by Ellis Peters in the Brother Cadfael series.


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