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What would have happened if Æthelwald had been able to incite the East Anglian Danes as he had planned?
Would Edward have been able consolidate and expand his father Alfred's holdings or would Ragnvald Sygtryggsson still have taken York all the way to the mouth of the Mersey and lay the foundation for King Eric Bloodaxe's consolidation of Mercia and Northumbria into the Norwegian crown and eventually the addition of the Irish titles of Tuatha of Leinster, Osraige and Corcaigh?
How might the Kalmar Union and the Danish language have look centuries later have looked without the Anglish and Gaelic lands and influences? Would the colonies of New Wessex across the ocean have rebelled against onerous taxes from the governors in Vinland and no representation in the Niðaróss Riksdag?
Would Edward have been able consolidate and expand his father Alfred's holdings or would Ragnvald Sygtryggsson still have taken York all the way to the mouth of the Mersey and lay the foundation for King Eric Bloodaxe's consolidation of Mercia and Northumbria into the Norwegian crown and eventually the addition of the Irish titles of Tuatha of Leinster, Osraige and Corcaigh?
How might the Kalmar Union and the Danish language have look centuries later have looked without the Anglish and Gaelic lands and influences? Would the colonies of New Wessex across the ocean have rebelled against onerous taxes from the governors in Vinland and no representation in the Niðaróss Riksdag?