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VI. Geography of the known World, in the Ninth Century, as described by King Alfred VII. Travels of Andrew Leucander, in the Eleventh Century VIII. Voyage of Swanus to Jerusalem, in 1052 IX. Voyage of three Ambassadors from England to Constantinople, about 1056 X. Pilgrimage of Alured to Jerusalem, in 1058 XI. Pilgrimage of Ingulphus to Jerusalem, in 1064

Swanus being of a peruerse disposition, and faithlesse to the king, often times disagreed with his father and his brother Harold: and afterwards proouing a pirate, he stained the vertues of his ancestours with his robberies vpon the seas.

He flourished in the year of our redemption, 1020, under Canute the Dane. Hakluyt, II. 39. The Voyage of Swanus to Jerusalem in 1052 . Swanus or Sweno, one of the sons of Earl Godwin, being of a perverse disposition, and faithless to the king, often quarrelled with his father and his brother Harold; and, becoming a pirate, he disgraced the virtues of his ancestors, by his robberies on the seas.