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Jomsborg was a legendary Viking settlement in Pomerania by the Baltic Sea. According to the Jomsvikinga Saga, it was inhabited by a guild of mercenaries known as the Jomsvikings. It is generally disputed whether such a settlement existed at all, all proof coming from later times and from distant Iceland. Contemporary sources mention a city known as Julin, Jumne or Wolin, which supposedly was a home of Slavic pirates, but where Danes and other Scandinavians could also easily find refuge. It was conquered by the disinherited Swedish prince Styrbjörn Starke who later gave it to the Danish king Harold Bluetooth. Harold Bluetooth had to take refuge from his son here in the late 900s.
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