Swedish King. Counting back through legends for centuries, he may have been this kingdom's Hacon II, but no such numeral has been used. His year of birth is approximate and his descent, allegedly from a Lord Thoril or a Lord Cole or a Lord Edmund (all frist names), is not known with any amount of certainty. When King Steinchetel (who is thought to have been his father in an extramarital relationship) died in 1066 after a reign of only five years, at least a decade of chaos broke out as competing kinship and faith factions fiercely vied for the throne. Two kings, Eric (VI) at Upsala and Eric (VII) at Sigtuna - all these numerals in parentheses are speculative - seem to have reigned for some months each and then were assassinated or fell in battle along with many of their grandees and supporters. Another King Anwynd (IV), assumed to have been of royal Swedish descent, came in from Russia, but was dethroned, when he wouldn't conduct the sacrificial rites of the old religion, and had to go back east again. Hacon, as the first Swedish monarch definitely mentioned on a contemporary runestone monument, thus is the very first of all who's documented in writing by a domestic source. He agreed to conduct the gruesome Norse ceremonies and probably reigned for some 15-20 years, possibly in several periods in the 1070's and 1080's. According to a convincing case made by historian Dr. Adolf Schück it is safe to assume that Hacon Red was the same man as the better known and infamously villainous "Blood Swain" (a swain willing to lead the old bloodletting rites), who reigned over Sweden and posed a serious threat to the new Roman church there, around this time. The King is reported to have been killed in battle in his lower 40's at Strängnäs in Sudermania and must then have been taken south into West Gothland for burial in the village of his birth. A daughter is supposed to have become the mother of King Eric the Holy of Sweden. It has been disputed by experts whether or not a son Eric Cole Goodyear ever really existed at all, though ancestry of King Sweartgar I of Sweden has been attributed to Hacon and/or the Blood Swain through such a son.