Iselilja is a Norwegian feminine given name. In 2015, in Norway 17 people had the name as a first name and 15 people had it as a middle name, according to SSB's name statistics.[1]
The name is, according to Norwegian historian Harald S. Næss in his eponymous Knut Hamsun biography (1984) and according to A Handbook of Scandinavian Names (2010),[6][7] a probable influence for the later name Iselin known since the mid 18th century.[8]
References
↑ "Navn, 2015". Statistisk sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway) (in Norwegian). Retrieved 31 May 2016. (Search for the name 'Iselilja' in the NAVNESØK search box.)
↑ Norske Viser og Sange til Skolebrug[Norwegian ballads and songs for use in school] (in Norwegian). 1868. pp.206–. Retrieved 24 June 2016. Knut liten og Sylvelin. Kungjen aa Knut liten dej sat ivi Bor, – Iselilja – Dej tala so mange dej skjemtande Or ...
↑ Moltke Moe (1922). Norske folkevisor: folkeutgåve[Norwegian folk ballads: people's edition] (in Norwegian). J. Dybwad. pp.134–. Knut liten og Sylvelin. I 1. Knut liten og kongjen dei sat ivi bord, — Iselilja — dei tala so mange dei skjemtande ord. — So såre syrgjer Sylvelin fyr lisle Knut ...
↑ Harald S. Næss (1984). Knut Hamsun. Twayne Publishers. pp.167–. ISBN978-0-8057-6562-5. The significance of the name Iselin is often brought up and never solved. To a Norwegian the name could contain the elements "ice" and "mild" ("is" and "linn"), but above all it is reminiscent of certain medieval folk ballads about princesses and rejected suitors, with names like Iselilja, Sylvelin, etc. In a ballad-inspired ...
↑ Nancy L. Coleman; Olav Veka (9 December 2010). A Handbook of Scandinavian Names. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp.11–. ISBN978-0-299-24833-8. Iselin (ee-seh-leen) A more recent name in Norway, probably influenced by names like Sylvelin, Vendelin, and Iselilja, known from old ballads. Made popular by a character in Norwegian author Knut Hamsun's novel Pan (1894).