 According to Elbląg museum the elusive Truso settlement was founded and inhabited mostly by Scandinavians.The recent research shows that the name "Ilfing" was Anglo-Saxon form of a Scandinavian name, which could be reconstructed as Old-Nordic "Elfeng", "Elfangr" or "Elfing" from Old-Nordic "elf-r" - meaning "river", and Old-Nordic "eng", "enge", "engi" meaning "meadow".The 16th century German pastor, historian and cartographer , wrote in his book "Erklärung der preußischen größeren Landtafeln oder Mappen" ("explanation of the larger Prussian maps")