Hakan the Red (2 June 1048-1 December 1080) was King of Sweden from 1 December 1070 to 1 December 1080, succeeding Halsten Stenkilsson and preceding Inge the Elder.
Biography[]
Hakan was born on 2 June 1048, the son of Stenkil and the brother of Eric Stenkilsson, Halsten Stenkilsson, and Inge the Elder. He succeeded his deposed brother Halsten as King of Sweden in 1070, and he had a runestone carved in Hovgarden before dying in 1080.