AHC: An Anglo Saxon Iceland

For #3 though, England isn't going to be enforcing their rule over Iceland anytime soon, since even the Norse didn't really rule Iceland except in name until the 13th century. And then you still have a Norse Iceland and not Anglo-Saxon.

If you want a really late POD, you could have Iceland be even more unprepared for the 1783 Laki eruption. Perhaps the English rule Iceland for one reason or another. With up to half of the population dead (twice as many as in OTL), and a lot of land free, the English settle in Iceland in large numbers and Anglicise the island, although the Icelandic language would never die out, just be pushed to the fringes. To fit the POD, we could still have no Norman invasion and thus technically making an "Anglo-Saxon Iceland". The Laki eruption is actually a nice way to get the final push to make the island Anglo-Saxon in any TL.
 
Prior to the Norse and the Irish Papars (who amounted to maybe two dozen men) Iceland lacked a population and in truth didn't have much value I.E didn't have any reason to really conquer it. The Shetland, orkney islands in northern Scotland would be much more useful to stop raids on the British Isled if they are really looking for some fight.

It's not ASB by any means. It's more just of a "why in the hell would they bother?" They have much more important things to worry about then conquering a piece of land that would do them zero good. I really doubt that Norway would wage war over the island (they might but I heavily doubt it) but even still it's just a real waste of time and effort..
 
Would it really be implausible for the English to settle in Iceland during the period of Norse rule in parts or all of England? Although Iceland was Norwegian (nominally) and England was associated with Denmark, is it that difficult for one of several monarchs (notably Canute) to encourage settlement of Iceland by Englishmen? And these Englishmen assimilating the Icelanders into speaking English, albeit an Old English dialect probably comparable to that of Northumbria and even more influenced by Old Norse?

A later POD is probably too late to have Greenland be speaking English (unless we have Erik the Red or a comparable figure bring with him Englishmen to settle the place), but an earlier POD might work to have our Greenlandic "Norse" be Englishmen, and same thing goes with any Vinland expeditions/settlements.
 
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