Today I concluded my year in Sweyn's footsteps with a fleeting visit to Gainsborough, the Lincolnshire town in which he is supposed to h...

As the traditional anniversary date (Christmas day) for Sweyn's accession to the English throne approaches, it seems right to round up t...

On 10th April 2013, the first warm and sunny day of the year, work took me to Suffolk. Taking advantage of this visit to an unfamiliar part...

I return to this blog after a long hiatus: over the summer months I was involved in a short research project to investigate a fourteent...

I began writing this blog after a visit to Holy Trinity Church in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, at the beginning of the year. I had been ...

Although we're only into March, it seems clear that 2013 will not be Sweyn's year: his thunder is being well and truly stolen by ano...

As today is the first day of the 2013 JORVIK Viking Festival, I thought I might showcase the Festival's own Sweyn Forkbeard (appearing a...