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    Blot-Sweyn (Swedish: Blot-Sven) was a Swedish king c. 1080, of disputed historicity, who was said to have replaced his Christian brother-in-law Inge as...
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    pagan custom of the blót. Blot-Sweyn (Swain the Sacrifier) was thus elected king. The Hervarar saga describes the rise of Sweyn, the abdication and how...
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  • Sweden as the wife of King Inge the Elder, and a supposed sister of King Blot-Sweyn of Sweden. The background of Queen Helena is not confirmed, but her activities...
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  • 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...
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  • he was the son of the pagan Swedish king Blót-Sweyn, and, like his father before him, administered the blóts at the temple at Uppsala. However, Erik does...
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  • Christianity and held on to their pagan beliefs the longest, with rulers such as Blot-Sweyn. From the Holy Roman Empire, the monk Ansgar (801–865) began the earliest...
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    violent occurrences between Christians and pagans was a conflict between Blot-Sweyn and Inge the Elder in the 1080s. This account survives in the Orkneyinga...
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  • at least two decades in the 4th century Björn Eriksson, king of Sweden Blot-Sweyn, leader of the Swedish pagan renaissance in the 11th century Coifi, priest...
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    reign. Swedish historian Adolf Schück has asserted that, rather than Blot-Sweyn being an individual king, there are indications that that may have been...
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    indicating that Olof paid tribute to another king, possibly the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard. Alternatively, it might be interpretable as "treasure king",...
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