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What does the grammar form of 知るin the below sentence mean?

闇の世界とは関わるはずがないと知っとったんだろうな

The sentence is from the Japanese version of Harry Potter I
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知っとった meaning of grammar?
It's a contraction of 知っておった which is an archaic/dialectal version of 知っていた,
which means "knew".
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