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Sweyn Forkbeard (Old Norse: Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg [ˈswɛinː ˈhɑrˌɑldsˌson ˈtjuːɣoˌskeɡː]; Danish: Svend Tveskæg; 17 April 963 – 3 February 1014) was King of Denmark from 986 until his death, King of England for five weeks from December 1013 until his death, and King of Norway from 999/1000 until 1013/14.
- 986–1014
- Tove or Gunhild
- Knut Danaást or Harald Bluetooth
- Harald II
Jun 8, 2020 · Sweyn Forkbeard, England’s shortest reigning king, is killed by King Edmund the Saint. Illustration from The Life of King Edward the Confessor in a manuscript from around 1250. (Public domain) As a result of Sweyn’s sudden death, the empire that he created disintegrated almost immediately.
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Dec 25, 2023 · 25 December 2023. By David McKenna,BBC News. British Library. Legend has it Sweyn Forkbeard was killed by the ghost of St Edmund. Forty days after he was crowned king of England, Sweyn...
Dec 25, 2013 · Even in death, Sweyn still leaves many questions unanswered, including who killed him just 40 days after his accession. One popular theory is he was murdered by the ghost of St Edmund, who was...
Oct 27, 2016 · The King of Sweden, Eric Sersel, used Sweyn’s absence to occupy Denmark and Sweyn was only able to reclaim it upon the King’s death in 994 AD. An Enemy Of My Enemy. Six years after this, at the Battle of Svolder in 1000 AD, Sweyn allied with the Swedes and defeated King Olaf I Trygvessön of Norway, occupying and dividing the kingdom.
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Sep 4, 2022 · Interestingly, the Heimskringla provides more details about Sweyn’s death: “it occurred when King Sweyn died suddenly during the night in his bed; and the English say that Saint Edmund killed him, the same way Mercury killed Julian the Apostate.”
Sweyn was proclaimed king on Christmas Day 1013, but his reign lasted for a matter of weeks; he died suddenly at his capital, Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, on February 3rd 1014. Sweyn was buried in England and his body was later removed to Roeskild Cathedral in Denmark. How he died is not certain.
