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In Wikipedia they say this about Oslo, the capital of Norway:

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During the Middle Ages the name was initially spelled 'Ásló', later 'Ósló'. The earlier spelling suggests that the first component 'ás' refers either to the Ekeberg ridge southeast of the town ('ås' in modern Norwegian), or to the Norse homonym meaning 'god' or 'divinity'. The most likely interpretations would therefore be 'the meadow beneath the ridge' or 'the meadow of the gods'. Both are equally plausible.

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Possibly there might be a link here?

someone has submitted the name Osla and it looks like they've researched it a bit, but they don't give a derivation for the meaning 'consecrated by God' other than it's Old Norse. This is kind of similar to the meaning given for Aslaug on this site and appears on other baby name websites as the meaning.

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http://www.behindthename.com/submit/view.php?name=osla

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searching the IGI it is definitely confined to Shetland and the very north of Scotland i.e those parts which were under Viking occupation and have mostly Scandinavian influence (as opposed to Celtic)

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It would seem very likely that Aslaug is correct.

Does OSLA had any historical connection to the name "Osia" which is apparently of Greek origin?

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RE: http://babynames.merschat.com/index.cgi?&function=View&bn_key=4789