Death of Sweyn Forkbeard
1014 · Event
Five weeks after being acknowledged king of England, Sweyn dies at Gainsborough — struck down, the English said, by St Edmund.
On these timelines: England, The Viking Age, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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