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Visit Swansea! Historic Swansea is a fun destination! Parks abound - Swansea is winner of the "Wales in Bloom" award year after year. Swansea entered recorded history some 800 years ago, bearing a Viking name believed derived from "Sweyn's ey," or Sweyn's island. The Sweyn in question may well have been Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark (987-1014), known to have been active in the Bristol Channel. Normans founded the marcher lordship of Gower. Devastation of the town center by German air raids during World War II led to complete rebuilding.