anglo-saxon

Norman Broke William I (from Wikimedia Commons) Forward The death of Edward the Confessor in AD 1066, created a succession crisis. Three people had a claim to the throne. Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, Edward the Confessor’s brother-in-law and had strong connections with the current...

Let's start with a point of divergence. We will say that either the Augustine mission sent to preach amongst the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms by Pope Gregory The Great either fails miserably within a few short years, or is never called at all. Instead the Anglo-Saxons remain largely pagan. Perhaps...

A few threads on this topic have been done some years ago, but they either derailed or focused on discussing England, so lets assume that William is killed at Hastings and the House of Godwin remains on the throne for a while. What would be the implications on continental Europe? The big one is...

This is just a request for any good threads chronicling an alternate timeline where King Harold triumphed at the Battle of Hastings. Despite being such a significant point in history, I can't seem to find much good alt-history material written about it.

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...

The Wyvern Rises - An Anglo-Saxon TL "Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men." - Alfred the Great _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Source: High...

A simple question, and one that is based entirely on your personal preference. Of all of the different ethnolinguistic situations for the territory comprising present-day England commonly suggested in various alternate history scenarios, which one do you find to be the most appealing or...

Young and Invaded The Tales of Edgar Ætheling (Sourced from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at Winchester) Edward talking to Edgar, as shown in the Gloucester Tapestry Chapter 1: The Day Edgar was thirteen on 'the day'. He went to visit his uncle, Edward the Confessor, he wanted to talk to Edgar...

Instead of being conquered by Rome as a consequence of a dynastic struggle in 70 CE, suppose the Brigantes tribe remains a loyal Roman client until Rome withdraws from Britain entirely. This tribe occupied perhaps the largest territory in pre-conquest Britain, in what is generally referred to...

O're Hills and Valleys Reign An abridged History of the Kingdom of Cumbry Chapter One Britain in the late 6th Century was in the midst of a struggle for the cultural heart of the island. On the one hand were the post-roman native Britons, on the other were the many germanic tribes that have...

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...

IOTL, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent had close ties with continental Europe due to its strategic location at the Strait of Dover. Indeed, it was one of the first areas of Anglo-Saxon England to be christianized, receiving Frankish missionaries as early as the 5th century. So, my question is...

Other than poorly... All jokes aside, assuming radical, authoritarian, militaristic, xenophobic nationalism became a thing, how would it work around the 1000s, let's say in an alternate version of England that was conquered by the Normans but came under a constant state of revolt until the...

What if the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes failed to conquer a large foothold in Britain, so they migrated the other direction, settling the lands east of the Elbe? As far as I know this area was partially vacated by Germanic tribes migrating into the Roman Empire, and quickly settled by West Slavs...

That title will get your attention :rolleyes: Following the brutal Norman Conquest of England, medieval sources claim that fleeing Anglo-Saxons, led by one Siward (supposedly Earl of Gloucester), sailed to the Mediterranean and came to Constantinople. There, some entered the Varangian Guard but...

Before Woden was wise he would go to his uncle, Ingemynd, for council and advice. Ingemynd always had good council, for he had lived long and remembered. One day, Woden asked of his uncle how his Cynn, the Ése, came to be. Wise Ingemynd began; "It was Ídel then, void of life, before the...

Lately I've been playing around with the idea of a, (semi-) realistic King Arthur TL, from the perspective of some 300 years afterwards. It got me thinking, how the "welsh" language would develop with anglo-saxon minority influencing? A map for context (current lables are mostly place holders)

So I am currently working on a timeline with a POD during the Third Crusade (it probably won't be posted for a while - unlike my other two abandoned timelines, I shall write the bulk of the story before posting it, so I don't abandon the project mid-stream) and I have thought about including an...

Hello and welcome to my first timeline on this site which will follow the history of the Kingdom of England and the trials it faces along with the advances it makes. The main PoD will be one during the Battle of Hastings, however I promise this will not be a simple story of throwing the Bastard...

In the time of Erik Bloodaxe in the 950s, Northumbria ruled from York to Lothian. If it had managed to survive, this Northern English kingdom might have eclipsed Scotland, which might never have become more powerful than the Western Isles did, and a divided island of Great Britain might have...