vikings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh In 937, a coalition of Norse, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish petty kingdoms and chiefdoms invaded England to try to keep Æthelstan from unifying it, but were beaten back at the Battle of Brunanburh. What if they had defeated the Anglo-Saxons...

On the XIII until the XVII centuries AD the Kingdom of Denmark controlled parts of the baltic, as it can be check on this map. Since Denmark became a very peacefull country after the war with Prussia I believe that a 19th century PoD is more realistic for the situation. Let's say that after the...

What if Olaf I Tryggvason, Norway's first Christian king, had managed to defeat his main opponents in Scandinavia at the pivotal naval Battle of Svolder (which is estimated to have occurred sometime around the turn of the first to the second millenium AD), preventing the partition of his kingdom...

What if the Vikings had managed to conquer Paris sometime around the 9th century? How much more territory would they be able to overrun, besides Ile-de-France? What would happen to the title of the King of West Francia? Would it go extinct? What would happen to his vassals, would they splinter...

In the Middle Ages, Vikings, Arabs, and Byzantines alike developed wide trade networks across Eurasia, expanded spheres of influence, conquered land from each other if only briefly, and all influenced each other in surprising ways. The challenge is to combine all three groups into one state. A...

Of the areas that were either not conquered, or only partially conquered by Vikings, which one would make for the most interesting Viking kingdom? You may or may not consider plausibility in your choice. What would the capital of the kingdom be, what religion would it convert to, if any, and...

With a POD no earlier than 900, screw Wessex as much as possible. What would be the consequences?

The saying "God, save us from the plague, the fire and the Kurshi (Curonians)" was found inscripted on a Danish church, dated to the 11th-12th centuries (https://www.evs-translations.com/blog/latvia/). It's a play on the more famous "God save us from the Vikings" saying from the Viking Age, but...

Point of Divergence ... We know that based on archeological discoveries that the Vikings made several excursions to North America in the area known as Greenland and settlements were made there, roughly between 900 and 1000 AD. Some discoveries have been made that have called into question the...

The Terror that Conquered Britain "And never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race" Point of Divergence - January 6th, 878 Outskirts of Chippenham, England Guthrum overlooked the lit up town from a hill. The night had a silence to it, as...

So, ensure that there will be no England. I am thinking here of weakening Wessex and the other Anglosaxon kingdoms to the point that no Anglosaxon kingdom is able to unite Anglosaxon Britain. What is the latest POD that can achieve this? I do not necessarily assume that there will be a united...

The postulate arises with a small Vinlandic settlement in Newfoundland/Nova Scotia that transmits technologies such as Ironworking, heavy plow, crop package, shipbuilding, and livestock to the Native North Americans, and eventually the mississippians over a period of moderate, prolonged contact...

Would it be possible for the Norse to establish themselves in Southern England(possibly East Anglia included) instead of the Seine estuary and become a proper Duchy like Normandy in OTL France? If yes, could this lead to the rest of England becoming more Scandinavian and be considered one of...

Here the scenario: Harald Hadrada wins the battle of Stanford Bridge decisively, killing King Harold and a huge chunk of the Godwin noblemans on it, and he later Marches south, defeating William the Conqueror and is crowned as the king of England After that he stays in power for a while, he...

Okay so to start off lets not talk about whether or not the Norse can establish a successful Vinland, there are a million threads out there about that already (though I think they're on the verge of being necro'd). So assuming the Norse have a stable presence on the Island of Newfoundland or...

As many know, in 871 the Wessex troops were defeated by the army of Halfdan Ragnarson, Bagseg, and the Five Jarls. It is known that the young Alfred was waiting for his brother Ethelred Pious, who wanted to finish the mass. What would have happened if Ethelred had decided to immediately oppose...

This should probably be in ASB, but what if the Vikings, who seem to have traveled as far as the Middle East if not further OTL, sailed down the coast of Africa and established settlements in the Cape region?

Alright, here is the scenario I’m trying to wrap my head around. The Viking Age started in 793 with the Raid of Lindisfarne. The Viking Age has been theorized to have been caused by a number of potential factors. Inheritance laws encouraging young men to earn livelihoods elsewhere...

Okay, hope this goes well. I'm a fanfiction reader, don't make fun of me, but have always particularly enjoyed Alternate History stories. That naturally led me here. Only found this site like a month ago, and decided to give it a try. I was originally going to do an alternate beginning for the...

If the Danes had won the battle of Edington, would Wessex have been part of Guthrums kingdom?