Sweyn

Sweyn is a Scandinavian masculine given name. Notable people with the surname include:

Kings:

• Sweyn Forkbeard (960–1014), King of Denmark, England, and Norway as Sweyn I
• Sweyn or Svein Knutsson (c. 1016–1035), King of Norway as Sweyn II
• Sweyn II of Denmark (1019–1076), King of Denmark
• Blot-Sweyn or Sweyn the Sacrificer (died 1087), pagan King of Sweden
• Sweyn III of Denmark (1125–1157), King of Denmark

Others:

• Sweyn Haakonsson (died c. 1016), an earl and co-ruler of Norway from 1000 to c. 1015
• Sweyn Godwinson (c. 1020–1052), Earl of Herefordshire, brother of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England
• Sweyn the Crusader (c. 1050-1097), Danish participant in the First Crusade, son of Sweyn II of Denmark
• Sweyn Asleifsson (c. 1115–1171), a Viking who appears in the Orkneyinga Saga

See also

• Sven
• Svein
• Sveinn
• Svend
• Swen

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