Sven I was a king of Denmark and England
In 985 AD he became king of Jómsborg after a rebellion in his mid twenties. Consolidating his hold on Denmark after the death of his father, he raided England, and was proclaimed king of Norway after the battle of Svöld.
He returned to England after his sister Gunhilda and her husband Pallig were killed in Ethelred’s St Brice’s Day Massacre in St Frideswide’s.
In the beginning of the new millennium, famine forced Sven to return home. Sven died following a fall from his horse, aged 54, and was buried at Roskilde cathedral in Eastern Denmark, on the island of Sjaelland.
Sven I was the first king to mint coins.