north sea empire

The North Sea Empire of Cnut Imagine that Cnut lives until he is 60 and dies around 1055, he is succeeded by Harthacnut/Cnut III, who is a much more competent ruler and lives until 1081, being succeeded by his own son, also imagine that somehow the If the North Sea Empire survives and remains...

Accidentally posted it in the After 1900 section. Now moved to appropriate forum The early medieval Scandinavians definitely made a mark on Europe in the latter half of the 1st millennium, establishing kingdoms in England, Ireland, Russia and Northern France as well as settling as far as...

Otl, Cnut the great united England, Denmark, and Norway by the mid eleventh century, before the norman conquests. His realm was split between two sons while norway was usurped. But say that it all goes to one son, Harthcnut, and then when Harthcnut dies in 1042, the crown goes to Edward the...

We all know that before the Normans, another foreigner landed on English shores and nearly stole the crown- Harold Hadrada of Norway. Unfortunately, in landing first, he had to deal with the English at their best, and was unable to take much beyond york. But what if his and William's fortunes...

In 1016 AD, Edmund Ironsides was defeated at Assandun and forced to cede the Majority of his Kingdom to Cnut I of Denmark and Norway with the understanding that the first of either of them to die would Inherit the rest of England. As it happened, Edmund would die just one month Later and Cnut...

The North Rises Once More - A 1066 Norwegian TL Prologue "It is war who changes man, yet man who starts the war. This most particularly true for the Norwegian Conquest of England. A war that preserved the influence of Scandinavian culture and the era that created it. A war that on the...