AHC: British Isles and Scandinavia considered part of the same region

With a POD in 1000 CE, your challenge is to have the British Isles and Scandinavia be considered part of the same cultural region in modern times. Bonus points if You can unite the entire region under the same King a la King Knut at least once. This unification may be ephemeral and only last for that one king's reign if need be. What would this region be called, anyway?
 
With a POD in 1000 CE, your challenge is to have the British Isles and Scandinavia be considered part of the same cultural region in modern times. Bonus points if You can unite the entire region under the same King a la King Knut at least once. This unification may be ephemeral and only last for that one king's reign if need be. What would this region be called, anyway?
Northern Europe. Done.:)
 
With a POD in 1000 CE, your challenge is to have the British Isles and Scandinavia be considered part of the same cultural region in modern times. Bonus points if You can unite the entire region under the same King a la King Knut at least once. This unification may be ephemeral and only last for that one king's reign if need be. What would this region be called, anyway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harthacnut

England and Denmark in the same country immediately after Knut the Great, though it was only for a few years because the English lords hated him. Give him Norway and have him perhaps cull the English lords and you can set a nice precedent for the 3 kingdoms to be one. Over time I am sure the migration of peoples and the slow expansion of countries will get all of the British Isles and Scandinavia under the control of England-Denmark-Norway, though it would probably take a long time.

And it would be called Northern Europe, I mean what else can it be called? Hell, the UN already gives that classification.
 
Scotland is considered a Nordic country already.

Have Hardrada be successful in his invasion and defend against William the Conqueror. From there, have an earlier peaceful unification of the Scottish and English thrones and have the Welsh enter the union through war, than regicide.

From there on, strengthen personal unions with Denmark.
 
With a POD in 1000 CE, your challenge is to have the British Isles and Scandinavia be considered part of the same cultural region in modern times.

While not as widespread or Universal as the idea of France being part of Western Europe, this already exists notably, among other places, in the United Nations.
 
i've actually got exactly this going on in my ASB ATL: the Norman invasion is defeated, so the Saxons stay in power and have stronger ties to Scandinavia (particularly Denmark) and the German states ITTL, partly because their culture does not receive French influences via the Normans
 
With a POD in 1000 CE, your challenge is to have the British Isles and Scandinavia be considered part of the same cultural region in modern times. Bonus points if You can unite the entire region under the same King a la King Knut at least once. This unification may be ephemeral and only last for that one king's reign if need be. What would this region be called, anyway?

With a POD of 1000AD that's easy. Harold Godwinsson wins at HAstings in 1066. That would mean the British Isles would remain as part of the Scandinavian world rather than being dragged into the European world (obviously being part of one did not mean that you weren't involved in the other!
 

ingemann

Banned
Scotland is considered a Nordic country already.

Not really, through if it became member of the Nordic Council either as a autonome British region or a independent state, that would likely change. But right now there's not a lot which bind Scotland together with the Nordic countries, except a past which England also share.
 

Thande

Donor
Something like the scenario in L Sprague de Camp's The Wheels of If where the British Isles and Scandinavia are united by an alt-Canute called Gorm and the union proves lasting - sometimes there is a temporary division caused by a civil war or war of succession, but the idea of the region being one is sufficiently strong that this always temporary.
 

ingemann

Banned
Of course the easiest way to make the British being considered part of Nordic region, is simply to let UK end up in personal union with Denmark in the 18th century, the two dynasties was closely related and a few sudden or avoided death in either dynasties could have created such a union. This union deon't need to survive, but if it last several decades (2-3 kings) in the period where the English middle class boom, we will likely see a increased interest in Nordic folklore, mythology and the common English-Nordic history, while in Denmark-Norway the interest may flow the other way, in this periode where the Danish middle class also are exploding.
 
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