Everyone on here knows the story of the battle of Hastings. In 1066 Anglo Saxon England was invaded first by Harald Hadrada King of Norway and then by William the Bastard Duke of Normandy and ruler of the Normans. Harald Hadrada lost the fight but William and the Normans won turning England into a Frenchified feudal kingdom and changing the culture and language of England greatly. I literally would have preferred any other ending to that battle than what happened personally. Like J.R.R Tolkien I think that the Frenchification of England is a shame.
I think that the Anglo Saxons were awesome and would have loved to see how English culture, and the English language, and the English nation would have developed without the Normans. I also would have loved to see the results of a Norwegian conquered England and how that would have developed as well. So my question is for both scenarios a Norwegian victory or a Saxon victory over the Normans, how would England develop in comparison to our timeline?
Would England be linked closer to Scandinavia in both cases? How would the development of Christianity be different as from what I understand the church in England had differences from the Church in Rome? Would the English still conquer Ireland and Wales and unify with Scotland? Would there still be a British Empire? What about the settler colonies of Canada, the USA, New Zealand, and Australia? How would they develop differently? Anything that comes to your mind regarding this topic is welcome.