Editing Anni-Frid Lyngstad (section)

==Early life==
Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/anni-frid-lyngstad-mn0000583653/biography |title=Anni-Frid Lyngstad Biography, Songs, & Albums |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> was born to Synni Lyngstad and German soldier Alfred Haase on 15 November 1945 in Bjørkåsen, a small village in [[Ballangen Municipality]] in northern Norway.<ref name="fridabeyondabba">{{cite web |title=Frida Beyond ABBA |website=Frida Beyond ABBA |date=2020-07-10 |url=https://fridabeyondabba.com/ |access-date=2024-08-28}}</ref> Fearing reprisal for conceiving a child with a German during [[German occupation of Norway|Norway's wartime occupation]], Synni left Bjørkåsen in 1947 with her mother Arntine and the infant Anni-Frid.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/abba/anni-frid-lyngstad-frida-age-husband-children-net-worth/ | title=Anni-Frid Lyngstad facts: ABBA singer's age, husband, children, net worth and more revealed }}</ref><ref name="fridabeyondabba"/> Anni-Frid was taken by her grandmother to Sweden, where they settled in the region of [[Härjedalen]]. Arntine took any available job while living there, whereas Synni remained in Norway and worked for a time in the south of the country. Synni joined her mother and daughter in Sweden, and the three moved to [[Malmköping]] (72&nbsp;km from Stockholm). Synni died of kidney failure soon afterward, aged 21 years, leaving Anni-Frid to be raised solely by her grandmother Arntine. Anni-Frid would grow up believing her father had died during World War II, as his ship had been reported to have sunk on its return to Germany.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/30/kateconnolly.theobserver |title=Torment of the Abba star with a Nazi father |first=Kate |last=Connolly |date=30 June 2002 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=28 January 2012}}</ref><ref name="allmusic"/>

In June 1949, Arntine and Anni-Frid relocated to [[Torshälla]], outside [[Eskilstuna]], where Arntine worked as a seamstress. Anni-Frid grew up in Torshälla and began to attend school in August 1952. During her childhood, Anni-Frid had close contact with her family, particularly her uncle and four aunts, at her birthplace during the summer holidays. She was close to her aunt, Olive, who once stated that she saw how lonely and subdued Anni-Frid was, and who consequently always did her best to make her feel loved and welcomed during her visits.<ref>https://acearchive.org/anni-frid-lyngstad</ref><ref name="fridabeyondabba"/>

In 1977, the German teen magazine ''[[Bravo (magazine)|Bravo]]'' published a poster and a complete biography with details of Anni-Frid's background, including the names of her mother and father. It was seen by Anni-Frid's half-brother, Peter Haase, who went to his father and asked him if he had been in Ballangen during the war. A few months later, at the instigation of [[Benny Andersson]], Anni-Frid met Haase in Stockholm for the first time.<ref name="r2">{{cite book | last=Palm | first=Carl Magnus | title=Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA | publisher=Omnibus | publication-place=London | date=2002 | isbn=0-7119-9194-4 | oclc=ocm50055315 | pages=47–49}}</ref><ref name=guardian/>