Roald first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. Dahl's mother, however, decided not to return to Norway to live with her relatives but to remain in the UK, since it had been her husband's wish to have their children educated in British schools. About a month later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 57. In 1920, when Roald was three, his seven-year-old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. Dahl and his sisters were christened at the Norwegian sailors' church in Cardiff, where their parents worshipped. He spoke Norwegian at home with his parents and sisters. Roald was named after the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time. Dahl's family moved from Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. Roald Dahl was born at 32 Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales in 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl (from Sarpsborg, Østfold) and Sofie Magdalene Dahl née Hesselberg.
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