The text around the ship reads "STYRINGHEIMVS". The "Barony of Styringheim" is a fictional country and is the name used by a mediaeval re-enaction society in Sweden, a branch of the Society of Creative Anachronism. The guy on the obverse is probably meant ot be a depiction of the Baron of the day. Here's a Google Translation of their webpage.
Such historical re-enactors (or "rennies") often strike mediaeval-style coins, as demonstrations of how coins used to be made in olden-times, using hand-carved dies and a guy with a big hammer. I would assume this "coin" is just such a piece, made in Viking style.
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