I was reading an Ancestry.com explanation of English surnames, but mine wasn't included because it came with the Norman invasion in 1066, and of course, the Normans were descendants of those terrible Scandinavians, so who really knows. Here's to you, Corbat the Norman.
http://www.1066.co.nz/library/battle_abbey_roll1/subchap133.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbet_family
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/corbettonenamestudy/First/People/anglo.htm
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