Eastern Orthodox Scandinavia?

Don't depreciate yourself : so far the ideas proposed are quite limited and can be resumed to "OTL equivalent, but the brand change".
For others places like, by exemple, Sudan, Arabia, border expansion would have worked as it's more in the direction of Roman interests.

Now, even with an early POD (not too early in order to have a distinct "eastern" orthodox church from a "western" one you have to deal with both concurrence from Latin Christianism in northern Europe and Byzantine interests which were pretty much absent on north of Carpathians.

But, while direct influence from Romans seem implausible, using your idea for an earlier christianisation of OTL Russia, or maybe Khazaria could lead to an indirect orthodox evangelization.
The idea was proposed, but without too much details, so there's something to follow there by mixing both.


Hmm so Christian Churches that are in communion with both branches and use that to maintain autonomy (at least until the Latin Church has enough power to back its side)?
 

ingemann

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If people just need to slow the spread of western Christianity, the solution lies in Godfred of Denmark, he won several Wars against Charles the Great and at his death (assassination; likely by Charles) the border was at the Weser river, one more war and he would likely have burned Aachen and regained control with Saxony and Frisia. This may have slowed the spread of Catholism down to the point, where it spread to Scandinavia from the east rather than thropugh the west
 
The modern Swedish word would be kejsare, pronounced something like CHAY-sah-reh.

Well, I'd assume to base it upon the Icelandic, considering what I've heard about Icelandic's minor evolution from Old Norse comparative to the other Nordic languages, though I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong on that.
 
Well, you had quite an answer : slow the spread of Latin Christianity, biggest byzantine influence among Slavs (probably earlier Rus' conversion) and conversion of Scandinavia from them.
 
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