Sweyn
Britishnoun
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Even so, it’s safe to assume that Sweyn Forkbeard, the Danish king credited with founding Lund, would have been pleased with the news.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2015
Before he could be crowned, according to one legend, Sweyn was stabbed to death at Thetford, Norfolk, by patriots of the ancient Anglo-Saxon "underground."
From Time Magazine Archive
Politics and traitorous quarrels disrupted the navy and the army; so that Sweyn overran England while Aethelred fled.
From Time Magazine Archive
By his first-wife, the Polish princess who was renamed Gunhild, Sweyn had several children, of whom history makes prominent mention of three: Harold, Canute, and Gytha, who was married to Earl Eric of Norway.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
Sweyn alone saw the saint; he screamed for help; at the close of the day he expired.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
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