Any potential history you're coming up for the area and the motives for the landlords should account for Sorn somehow - he's not been dead for even a year yet. It might be easiest to put Sorn at about the same level as the other local lords and to say that they all got along well enough in a live and let live sort of way. This would make it highly probable that someone would recognize Scyld - Sorn had a very small household and you could probably say that Scyld was like a trusted lieutenant/servant.
If that was so, Sycld would probably personally know people at other farms... though he wouldn't have been friends with them because he doesn't trust people, and they probably wouldn't have trusted him anyway because Sorn was a pretty bad and kind of crazy dude. So maybe contact was fairly minimal...
And yes, Scyld and Rowenna certainly have things to say to each other, but darned if I know what.
Did Rowenna know Linduial?