Premise: Thwaite is a small village in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England. It is in Swaledale and is part the district of Richmondshire and the civil parish of Muker. The village lies on the B6270 road that runs through Swaledale from east to west and is 15 km west of Reeth. The name "Thwaite" comes from the Old Norse word þveit, meaning 'clearing, meadow or paddock'.
Hypothesis: Thwaite, though named from an Old Norse word meaning 'Clearing, meadow, or paddock", is outside Norway and is a village in the Yorkshire Dales of England.