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Edgar Ætheling, as shown in an illuminated manuscript August, 1066: With favorable winds and good fortunes, Duke William “the Bastard” of Normandy sails out to the shores of Southern England with confidence that, should Harold II Godwinson meet him in battle, he could defeat him, and march on...

What if Alfred the Great's older brother, Æthelred I, had survived, rather than dying in 871? How might it have affected the conflict with the Great Heathen Army?

What could be some short- and long-term scenarios for South-Britain following a Danish victory at the battle of Edington?

IOTL, Edmund Ironside, son of Æthelred the Unready, wrested control of (most of) England back from Cnut the Great in a series of campaigns, finally ending with a treaty granting Wessex to Edmund and Mercia to Cnut. Edmund died under fairly mysterious cirmcumstances months later, and Cnut...

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...

Challenge: With a post-800 POD, make Celtic South Britain as powerful and influential as possible.

Challenge: With a POD after the Viking attack at Lindisfarne, wank the Viking influence over Anglosaxon Britain as much as possible. Bonus points if it ends in a united "Daneland".

Try and make a timeline in which England does not unify until the 19th century at around the same time that Germany and Italy do. For the sake of continuity, we will assume that the kingdom of Wessex, while not being able to unify England, still creates the Empire, and gets all of the colonies...

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