Question

What is the name of the first Viking who became the King of England?

Answer 1

Cnut the Great: England's Viking King. The son of Denmark's King Svein Forkbeard, Cnut (or Canute) helped his father conquer England in 1013. However, when Svein died the next year, the exiled Anglo-Saxon king, Aethelred the Unready, returned to power.