Following Halfdan's formal partition of Northumbria in 876-877, Danish warriors were settled across the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of the North Riding. The Anglian landowners were dispossessed in a process that left its mark in hundreds of Scandinavian place-names: -by, -thorpe, -thwaite suffixes across the region. Local Anglian resistance was sporadic and unsuccessful. The linguistic and cultural transformation of the region was profound and lasting.
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