• Sweyn Asleifsson or Sveinn Ásleifarson (c. 1115 – 1171) was a 12th-century Viking who appears in the Orkneyinga Saga. Sweyn was born in Caithness in the...
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  • 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)...
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    indicates that the original version of the saga ended with the death of Sweyn Asleifsson, who (according to the saga) was killed fighting in Dublin in 1171...
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    Ljótólfr Olaf the White Olvir Rosta Páll Bálkason Ragnall ua Ímair Sweyn Asleifsson Thorbjorn Thorsteinsson Thorstein the Red History Kingdom of the Isles...
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    Ljótólfr Olaf the White Olvir Rosta Páll Bálkason Ragnall ua Ímair Sweyn Asleifsson Thorbjorn Thorsteinsson Thorstein the Red History Kingdom of the Isles...
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    be named for Sweyn Asleifsson (Sveinn), who was connected with Gairsay or possibly a corruption of "servant's island" in Norse. Sweyn Holm is made up of...
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  • Ljótólfr Olaf the White Olvir Rosta Páll Bálkason Ragnall ua Ímair Sweyn Asleifsson Thorbjorn Thorsteinsson Thorstein the Red History Kingdom of the Isles...
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  • Ljótólfr Olaf the White Olvir Rosta Páll Bálkason Ragnall ua Ímair Sweyn Asleifsson Thorbjorn Thorsteinsson Thorstein the Red History Kingdom of the Isles...
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  • government issued permits were called Letters of Marque. The Viking Sweyn Asleifsson was born in 1115 in Caithness and later lived in the Orkney Islands...
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    Causantín and the Orkneyinga saga records an attack on the Isle of May, by Sweyn Asleifsson and Margad Grimsson: They sailed south off Scotland until they came...
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