Word: sweyn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Referring to the discovery of the sarcophagus supposedly containing the bones of Sweyn (TIME, July 19), it seems opportune to point out that the Saxon king defeated by Sweyn was Aethelred the Unready (or Redeless...
Aethelred, being before his time, adopted a policy of appeasement and paid Olaf, predecessor of Sweyn, ?10,000 to give up his first raid. After that Aethelred paid consecutively ?16,000, ?24,000, and finally ?36,000, but when the price of peace reached ?48,000 Aethelred collected a great fleet, ordered a general massacre of the Danish fifth column, and decreed a great levy of troops-his idea of selective service. Politics and traitorous quarrels disrupted the navy and the army; so that Sweyn overran England while Aethelred fled. The policy of opportunism had paved the path for William...
When piratical Sweyn Forkbeard I, King of Denmark, made his third invasion of England, 930 years ago, he arrived on the River Humber with his son Canute, conquered the country and was accepted as king. Before he could be crowned, according to one legend, Sweyn was stabbed to death at Thetford, Norfolk, by patriots of the ancient Anglo-Saxon "underground." Canute* got the throne...
Thirty-five years ago a sarcophagus weighing 3½ tons was found buried in the old chapel of St. Edmund at Thetford. The sarcophagus lay around until two weeks ago when a Mrs. Jameson, archeologist wife of a local doctor, convinced that it contained Sweyn's bones, agitated for recommitment. Rev. Ronald Cooling, Vicar of St. Mary's, Thetford was about to conduct the ceremony last week when Bishop Herbert of Norwich intervened. Experts, he decreed, must first study the bones...
...character of Tyrker, an adventurous German with a realistic accent. F. M. Sawtell '02, who takes the part of Sigurd, is indeed an "insidious and crafty" villain, as he proclaims in his entrance song. One of the hardest parts in the first act is that of Sweyn, Olaf's foolish but sly servant. It is taken by J. C. Miller '01. He is seen again in the third act as Professor Hasafad, the enthusiastic discoverer of Leif Ericsson. C. C. Brayton '01 makes a laughable figure in this act as a Chicago wheat king of the "nouveau riche" type...