Scagnar: This is an exchange island, a free port administered by members of the Merchant Caste and located in the far north, west of Torvaldsland. Thorgard is its Jarl; he owns the Black Sleen, a warship and the swiftest ship in the north.

Free Islands - Also known as exchange islands, they are administered as Free Ports by the Merchants. Included are Teletus, Tabor, and Scagnar. Others were Farnacium, Hulneth and Asperiche. In the south are Anango and Ianda, and in the far north, Hunger and Skjern, west of Torvaldsland. These islands, and free ports on the coast such as Lydius and Helmutsport, Schendi and Bazi make possible the commerce between Cos and Tyros and cities of the mainland.

Raiders of Gor, page 137

The Goreans, generally, though there are exceptions, particularily the Caste of Initiates, do not believe in immortality. Accordingly, to be of a city is, in a sense, to have been a part of something less perishable than oneself, something divine in the sense of undying. Of course, as every Gorean knows, cities too are mortal, for cities can be destroyed as well as men. And this perhaps makes them love their cities the more, for they know that their city, like themselves, is subject to mortal termination."

(Outlaw of Gor, page 22)