Examples of using Sweyn in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Earl Sweyn.
Sweyn Estridsson.
Harald, unwilling to relinquish Denmark, attacked Sweyn and fought a long war.
Sweyn campaigned in Wessex and East Anglia in 1003- 1004, but a famine forced him to return to Denmark in 1005.
Before his death, he had decided that Sweyn was to inherit Denmark and Harald to inherit Norway.
Sweyn managed to escape the battle, reached land and stopped at the house of a peasant to ask for something to eat.
Many variations of the name are used, including Sven and Sweyn, from the Anglo-Saxon Swegen.
Sweyn spent three years seeking support for a reconquest, and returned to Denmark in 1157 with the support of German duke Henry the Lion.
In the following years,Canute tried in vain to defeat Sweyn III on Zealand for complete control over Denmark.
Attempts to bribe Sweyn not to attack using danegeld payments failed, and he took the throne in 1013.
A similar story also appears in the Orkneyinga saga,but in this account, Sweyn stays indoors and is burnt to death.
Adam of Bremen depicted Sweyn as a rebellious pagan who persecuted Christians, betrayed his father and expelled German bishops from Scania and Zealand.
With his concubine Thunna, Eric had the illegitimate son Sweyn, who would later become king as Sweyn III of Denmark.
Sweyn continued to oppose Magnus in Denmark, although according to Heimskringla, they reached a settlement by which Sweyn became Earl of Denmark under Magnus.
In 1016 at the Battle of Nesjar he defeated Earl Sweyn, one of the earls of Lade and hitherto the virtual ruler of Norway.
According to Adam, Sweyn was sent into exile by his father's German friends and deposed in favour of king Eric the Victorious of Sweden, whom Adam wrote ruled Denmark until his death in 994 or 995.
On his way to Denmark,Harald's fleet clashed with the fleet of Danish king Sweyn Estridsson in a major naval battle at Niså that resulted in Norwegian victory.
Sweyn encouraged the building of churches all over Denmark, and Adam of Bremen was astounded that there were 300 churches in Scania alone, more than in all the other countries of the north put together.
At the peace banquet in Roskilde on 9 August 1157, Sweyn planned on killing his two co-rulers, and succeeded in having Canute killed.
Probably seeking to restore Cnut's"North Sea Empire", Harald also claimed the Danish throne, and spent nearly every year until 1064 raiding the Danish coast andfighting his former ally, Sweyn.
At the abdication of Eric III in 1146, Sweyn was elected king by the magnates on Zealand while Canute V was crowned by their counterparts in Jutland.
Meanwhile, Magnus' uncle Harald Sigurdsson had returned to Norway from the east and contested his rule there, while Sweyn was still a threat in Denmark; Harald allied himself with Sweyn.
Canute was supported by Archbishop Eskil, but Sweyn moved to secure Eskil's loyalty by granting the Archbishop of Lund land holdings in Scania and Bornholm.
After Harald Hardrada was defeated and killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge andWilliam the Conqueror had conquered England, Sweyn turned his attention to England, once ruled by his uncle Canute the Great.
Although Magnus had appointed Sweyn his successor as king of Denmark, Harald immediately announced his plans to gather an army and oust his former ally from the country.
After Harald Hardrada was killed,and William the Conqueror had conquered England, Sweyn turned his attention to England, once ruled by his uncle Canute the Great.
Based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Sweyn began to organise his vast new kingdom, but he died there on 3 February 1014, having ruled England for only five weeks.
After his victory, Eric kept Denmark for a time, while Sweyn was forced to flee, first to Norway to England, to Scotland whose king received the refugee with kindness.
Similar to his campaigns(then together with Sweyn) against Magnus's rule in Denmark, most of his campaigns against Sweyn consisted of swift and violent raids on the Danish coasts.