AHC: Baltic Britain

It seems you see all sorts of things: Romanic Britain, more Germanic Britain, Celtic Britain, and even a Slavic Britain, but never a Baltic Britain. How is it, with a POD after 300 AD, that at the very least OTL England, Scotland, and Wales speak a Baltic Tounge, and are culturally Baltic? Bonus if you can describe what the state and culture would be like.
 
The Baltic cultures (that is Lithuanians, proto-Latvians and the related groups like Couronians and Latgalians) were nowhere even near coalesced until nearly a millenia later, by which point things were settled, and prior to that the populations were both boxed in migration wise and very small, and if you go back any further you can't really even speak of 'Baltic cultures'.
 
You're going to need a POD really far back, 3-4000 BC or so. The migration into the Batics that seeded the Balts, washes further and covers the UK too. Which I suppose you could argue that it did OTL.

Maybe the natives manage to resist the initial Indo-European incursions, and there is a later wave from the Baltics, covering Denmark and the low countries before innundating the British Isles? Keep some cultural and linguistic continuity across the north sea.
 

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It's pretty much impossible via the Baltic (too many larger peoples in the way) and the Livs, Kurs and Lithuanians are pretty much hemmed in in any case. The Finns and Ests on the other hand have real possibilities.
Someone did a TL about a Finn independent Kingdom showing the Finns starting out with 50,000 people. Eric Flint, in one of his historical novels, points out that in the early Middle Ages, Finns lived in what is now Swedish Nordland, living as hunters and gatherers where it was too cold to farm, while the Norse occupied the Norwegian Sea Coast all the way up to Lapland. Of course the Swedes finally conquered the entire Scandinavian Peninsula east of the Kjolen Divide, driving the Finns east of the Gulf of Bothnia and eventually, after the Little Ice Age caused famines decimated their numbers, conquered the Finns too. But what if, under pressure from the Swedes and the Novgorodian Russ, the Finns take the Norrland coast of the Norwegian Sea, start by going "a viking" and then collectively decide to migrate to and conquer all or part of England?
50,000 people means about 20,000 combatants, which is a respectable sized army for the time. And there's enough wood to build enough ships to carry them if they decide they can pull it off. Finnish ihfluence on English would be interesting indeed. We would have an English language that sounds a lot like Tolkien's Quenya or Elder Tongue (since that language was based on Finnish), for one thing. :D Mae govannen!
 
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