How to pronounce Synnove?

'sin' - 'NO' - vay
vay rhymes with 'they'

First Name

Scandinavian

Female

Synnöve, Synnøve

"Sun Gift"

The name was attributed to an Irish princess and saint in the 1170 Norwegian work, (written in Latin), Acta sanctorum in Selio.

The book recounts the legend of St. Sunniva, who fled her native homeland in order to escape the advances of an unwanted suitor. She and her entourage ended up landing in what is now Selje Norway, where they took refuge in a cave. When the local inhabitants accused them of stealing sheep, it is said that rocks fell and miraculously closed off their cave to the angry inhabitants.

In 996, King Olaf Tryggvason excavated the cave where he found the body of the saint, (who had been dead hundreds of years), miraculously intact.

King Olaf designated her as the patron saint of the municipality of Selje. An abbey was built over the site of the cave.

Another legend attributed to her says that when fires ravashed the area of Bergen, between 1170-1 to 1198, the remains of the saint were taken from her reliquary and sat up in a sitting position, which miraculously stopped the spread of the fire.

Synnove is pronounced as s ih - N OH - v ai

s	is pronounced as		s	in so
ih	is pronounced as		i	in it
n	is pronounced as		n	in no
oh	is pronounced as		o	in so
v	is pronounced as		v	in very
ai	is pronounced as		ai	in pain

Synnove is pronounced as: Phonetic Spelling:[ s ih - N OH - v ai ]

s	ih	-	N	OH	-	v	ai
so	it		no	so		very	pain

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