Sweyn Forkbeard

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Ethelred the Unready(Elthelred II)(?-1016 AD) was an English King. Most of his reign he was preoccupied with fighting off repeated Viking raids. Ethelred ordered St. Brice's Day Massacre which triggered an invasion of England by Denmark.