Sweyn Forkbeard besieged and sacked Exeter in 1003, having the gates opened by Hugh the Norman reeve who was apparently in his pay; the city was devastated and the walls demolished, one of the most damaging Viking attacks on a fortified English town in the Ethelredian period.
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