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Beyond Vinland is an Alternate History Project created on the Whatifalthist discord server where the focus is on the butterfly effect from Iceland's independence after a lightning strikes and burns down a Church in the year 1000, influencing Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi's decision regarding the...

What if as a result of the Saxon wars, some Saxons fled to Iceland? IOTL Charlemagne executed 4,500 Saxons at Verden and deported thousands to other areas of the Carolingian empire. Could a few thousand Saxons have escaped to Iceland? Did they have the technology to do so? I presume a key...

The Veneti were a tribe of Gauls located in modern day Brittany. They were probably the most notable resistance to the Roman invaders in the Gallic wars after Vercingetorix. Gaius Julius Caesar himself described their shipbuilding capabilities as ships that are much bigger and sturdier than...

WI the Anglo-Saxons, and not the Norsemen, were the ones to settle and define Iceland? I'm trying to make a TL where this happens, and once William the Conqueror takes England, the Anglo-Saxon nobility books it for Iceland (by then already settled by Angles), where they establish a new...

With a POD in 1783 (the year of the laki eruptions where 25% of the population would die to famine) , how can we have the population of Iceland, by 2020, be bigger than OTL (336k) and what PODs are necessary to achieve this?

In OTL the first people to make their homes in Iceland were (according to the sagas) the Irish Papar monks followed by the Norse. My question is: What is the earliest feasible date that Iceland could have been settled by humans and who could have done it? Is it possible for the Neolithic...

What if Cod Wars never end.How that event could change entire European Union during Cold War? Will Iceland joined Soviet Sphere of Influnce or not

I'm writing a timeline where Christian II of Denmark isn't deposed from his position as King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, due to him not carrying out the Stockholm Bloodbath. At first I was initially thinking that it wouldn't have a big effect on the course of The Reformation in Scandinavia...

With any POD after the first Viking settlements, what’s the most populated Iceland could have gotten?

Union of The Three Crowns: The History of The Nordic Empire Chapter 0: Prologue For better or for worse, the world from 1492 to 1945 was dominated by Europe. During this time, the great empires of Europe, whether the British, French, Spanish or Russians were the main players on the global...

The Battle of Brunkeberg was a crushing setback for Denmark and the Kalmar Union, since it secured Sweden's independence from Copenhagen for the next few decades. Although John and Christian II did control the kingdom later, they only did so for a brief amount of time before it broke away for...

In the first two decades of the Cold War, the intelligence services of the West Block made some startling discoveries that hinted at an unexpected build-up of Soviet military capability, airlift capability, and even spaceflight capability. With spyplanes temporarily grounded due to certain...

Another Vinland WI thread I guess, but rather than the endless discussions (if you could call them that) of whether Vinland would become a veritable China overnight that bypasses Newfoundland altogether or forever be condemned to be a bunch of poor fishermen and shepherds, there was even that...

Apparently in the Congress of Vienna, Swedish diplomats did broach the topic with the great powers regarding a Swedish annexation of Iceland and Greenland, however whilst Austria and France were supportive, Prussia, Russia and Britain were not supportive, which led to the idea dying down. But...

I always get confused by the term 'Scandinavia' but I will lose it liberally for this 'What if.' I shall be referring to the nations (in no particular order) of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Greenland... So... A gradual process beginning in 1800 with most...

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Whoo thats a whollop of a title. So basically in recent years and months I've noticed an upsurge in Vinland threads and the like, specifically one that do more than just posit whether the initial colony would fail or not which has pretty much been the staple for discussions about a Norse North...

Despite the fact that they managed to populate the various islands of the Arctic archipelago(albeit quite sparsely) and even reach Greenland, they never managed reach Iceland before the Norse started settling there. This could be attributed to a variety of factors, but this is alternate history...

Let's say that Scandinavia unites in a similar manner to Germany and Italy during the 1800s and Gothenburg is chosen as the new capital. How would the city change? They would obviously need a parliament building and a royal palace (assuming that it is a monarchy) but how would these buildings...

This timeline is going to focus on union between the Scandinavian countries formed in the aftermath of a slightly different second world war in which Sweden is also invaded by Germany along with Denmark and Norway. (Finland might join after the Cold War is over but I am getting ahead of myself)...