Svein Forkbeard

…And Svein Fortbeard, he may be, you know, a new kind of Dane in that he is a king in a Christianizing world and he has more bureaucracy behind him and all of this kind of thing. So he's not a Viking raider or a Viking warlord, but he's just as frightening and formidable as the most sinister and blood-drenched of Alfred the Great's adversaries or whatever.…

…In his cold blue eyes, Tom, there was only death because Svein Fortbeard has just heard the news of the massacre of Danes in England. And he has also, according to some sources, heard that one of the victims is his own sister, Gunnhilde. Right. And this is a man with whom you do not want to mess. So Tietmar, the Bishop of Merseburg. said that he was, and I…

…And the Danish king who best demonstrates this is not Harold himself, but his son, Svein Forkbeard, who at the end of the last episode, you reminded us, had cold blue eyes.…