Thorgils Skarthi

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Skaroaborg, by Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider. There is also evidence of much earlier Stone Age and Bronze Age settlements, and remains of a.

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Scarborough 2002

Viking, Thorgils, nicknamed Scarthi, because he had a hare-lip or cleft palate. Scarborough was therefore Skarthi's stronghold.

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Thorgils Skarthi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thorgils Skarthi (the hare-lipped) was a Viking raider and poet who, in about 966 founded, Scarborough, England which was then known as Skarðaborg.

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Scarborough origin of name in Casselman's Canadian Words by Bill

We know because it was recorded in a Viking saga that one Thorgils Skarthi founded the North Yorkshire settlement around 965 A.D.

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England Travel Guide : Scarborough - Eupedia

Settled since the bronze age, Scarborough was founded by the Viking Thorgils Skarthi ("the harelips") around 966 AD as Skarðaborg.

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The History of Scarborough Castle | English Heritage

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Encyclopaedia of the Celts: Flamborough - Furbaide Ferbenn

Kormak Fleinn (the javelin) and Thorgils Skarthi (the hare-lipped) are traditionally named as the founders (respectively) of these two northern towns.

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