hanseatic league

The Republic of Novgorod in present-day Northwestern Russia was closely related to Scandinavia and the Germanic peoples, was a member of the Hanseatic League, with Russian merchants being the most respected foreign of the Germans, and despite Orthodoxy there were two heresies that could have...

The first wave of European colonisation - or the Second Viking Age in North Europe - began with the Norwegian re-settlement of Vinland in the late 14th century. When King Håkon VI of Norway received a request to send a new bishop to Greenland in 1379, he decided to send an expedition to survey...

What if the Hanseatic League was never formed? How might its absence impact history?

Halo In regards to South Africa, there had been many threads which discussed about different discoverers/settlers in SA such as the British, Portuguese, French, Vikings, etc.etc. even Chinese(!). But why not the Germans? Your challenge is to make the Germans the ones who discovered the Cape...

I'm trying to come up with some ideas for a Hanseatic/Baltic German wank TL. Valdemar Atterdag was an important king in Danish history who took control at a time when Denmark was increasingly coming under the control of German nobles. But what if Valdemar was never born? Would Denmark cease to...

Could the Netherlands have been formed as a united realm a few centuries earlier? The Low Countries were a significantly urbanized region since the Middle Ages, so it seems plausible enough that the economic power there could support a concentration of political power. But it took until the late...

What if the Viking Age continued for several more centuries? And what if Scandinavia remained an international locus of trade and military power well into the Middle Ages and Renaissance? How could the Viking Age last longer? Here are a few different possibilities. Prolong the flow of silver...

Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg, sought influence in Scandinavia throughout the mid-14th century. In this he was successful, the Mecklenburgs being major players for the second half of the 14th century. He married Euphemia of Sweden, and their second son, also named Albert, successfully claimed...