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Scolland of Canterbury also known as Scotland was the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey during the Norman conquest of England.

He was an aid of Lanfranc,[1] the Archbishop of Canterbury.

He conducted building works at his abbey and promoted the veneration of Augustine in Canterbury.[2]

  1. ^ The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (Clarendon Press, 1979) p49.
  2. ^ Richard Eales, Richard Sharpe, Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109 p2 & 4.

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