Forty days after he was crowned king of England, Sweyn Forkbeard was apparently murdered in his bed. The weapon was allegedly a spear. But the killer? Folklore has it as the ghost of St Edmund, ...

Sweyn Forkbeard chose it as his capital in 1013.

After Sweyn Forkbeard’s death, Olaf Haraldsson returned to Norway to unite the kingdom and resist Cnut’s growing empire. His final stand at Stiklestad in 1030 turned a warlord into a legend.

A town that was briefly capital of England is looking to make more of its links with a Viking king who ruled for just 40 days. Sweyn Forkbeard, the nation's shortest reigning monarch, began his rule ...