AHC: A Scandinavian Union Post-1866

Sweden is in a pretty good position in 1866. It's started to industrialise, it has absorbed Norway and to my knowledge there is still support for the idea of a Scandinavian Union. My understanding as to the reasons why it didn't was fear of Prussia and that support in Denmark suffered, following the Second Schleswig War, when Sweden didn't honor the call to arms.

Please correct me if I'm wrong on that. Is it possible that a Union could have been created and if so what steps would have to happen for this to be achieved? How important is Finland to the creation of the Union and when could they have taken it from Russia?
 
The Kalmar Union rather poisoned the waters for a later Scandinavian union.
To work, it MUST NOT be led by Denmark or Sweden, and it can't be led by Norway (too small). So...
You'd have to have a true federal system, possibly with a rotating High King, with 3 (at least) national parliaments and a Union one. I really don't see how you'd pull that off.

Also, what language does said parliament use? Danish is different enough from Swedish that, at best, there's difficulty communicating across languages. And Norwegian, iirc, doesn't exist yet in any codified form. (And when they DID codify it, they had to create 2 languages - what are now called Bokmål and Nynorsk))
 
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