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Sweyn I
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Sweyn I

 or Sweyn Forkbeard

(died Feb. 3, 1014, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Eng.) King of Denmark (c. 987–1014) and Viking conqueror of Norway and England. He rebelled against his father, Harald Bluetooth (987), chasing him from Denmark. With Swedish and Norwegian allies, he defeated Olaf I Tryggvason (c. 1000), becoming virtual ruler of Norway. Sweyn led raids on England in 1003–04 and became king after a successful military campaign in 1013, forcing Ethelred II into exile. Norway reverted to Norwegian rule after Sweyn's death, but the Anglo-Danish empire continued under his son Canute the Great.
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His descendents included Erik Bloodaxe, Sweyn Forkbeard and Harold Bluetooth - not, I hasten to add, the pioneer of wireless technology that bears his name.
travel: All roads lead north to Norway; PETER SHARPLES COACHES AROUND ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
However his father, Sweyn Forkbeard, was offered the English throne in 1014 but died before he could be crowned (Page 2, June 13).
For the record by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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