Elastich search – ICU Collation Keyword Field – Norwegian language – aa elastich search consider as å when sorting

According to Wikipedia on the Norwegian alphabet

The letter Å (HTML å) was introduced in Norwegian in 1917, replacing Aa or aa.
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Family names may not follow modern orthography, and as such retain the digraph aa where å would be used today.

and more specifically on the subject of collation

Aa is treated like Å in alphabetical sorting, not like two adjacent letters A, meaning that while a is the first letter of the alphabet, aa is the last.

Your sort order is correct.

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