I was just curious what was her real name and patronymic (Helga ????dottir) but couldn't find any info about her father.
Does this info even exist?
Or, if we take that Viking age Norse people had tradition of naming their children after deceased relatives, can we at least assume what her father's name could be and maybe try to match it with some known figure?
"Sviatoslav"/"Saint+glory|fame", for instance, could be just a translation of combination of names Helgi/Oleg/"Saint" and Hrorik/Rurik/"Famed ruler", but could it be that it was taken from another Helgi than that who was a ruler of Rus'?
Maybe Helga's father's name was also Helgi? So could she be Helga Helgisdottir ?
Or maybe she was Helga Helgisdottir as precisely the daughter of that Helgi? (Now that would be too much of a stretch of course and they'd likely mention such detail in the chronicle)
Olga was from Pskov – this is explicitly mentioned in the Chronicle. However, we know absolutely no details about her family.
Folk sources say that she was Oleg’s relative (or even daughter) or named after Oleg, and depict them both as legendary wise rulers, however, it is possible that the legends just intertwined two similar names. Or possibly Helga (definitely a Norse name) was from a common Norse family living somewhere around Pskov.
Another version is that she was from a noble Slavic family; this is backed up by an anthropological research of the skull of Yaroslav the Wise which turned out to be rather Slavic than Nordic type. Yaroslav’s mother Rogneda was Norse, his father Vladimir (Olga’s grandson) was son of Sviatoslav and Malusha (whose origins are debated), father of Sviatoslav – Igor was definitely Norse. So, if Malusha (Malfrid) was Norse, Olga was the only of Yaroslav’s ancestors who could have Slavic blood.
So, this is as precise as we can get so far – at least what most historians currently agree on.
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