Lyngstad

Last updated July 02, 2019

Lyngstad is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties, and some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are hardly mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. While the two Germanic languages with the greatest numbers of speakers, English and German, have close similarities with Norwegian, neither is mutually intelligible with it. Norwegian is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era.

Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer and one of the four members of Swedish pop group ABBA
Arne Lyngstad, Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party
Bjarne Lyngstad (1901–1971), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
Ola Torstensen Lyngstad (1894–1952), Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Liberal Party

Princess Anni-Frid Synni of Reuss, Countess of Plauen, better known by her nickname Frida, is a Norwegian-Swedish singer, songwriter, and environmentalist. She is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the Swedish pop band ABBA.

ABBA are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982. ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 at The Dome in Brighton, UK, giving Sweden its first triumph in the contest. They are the most successful group to have taken part in the competition.

Arne Lyngstad was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

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