being Northern English myself I’ve always wondered what if Northern England (and maybe the Midlands aswell) was it own kinda separate entity from the rest of well would be then Southern England just like Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland already is at present but either under government from Westminster or Independent Parliament run from like Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle (and again Birmingham or Nottingham for the Midlands case) just like the equivalent of Glasgow or Edinburgh being for Scotland, Cardiff or Swansea being for Wales, Belfast Stormont being for Northern Ireland respectively
Would we be even be called Northern England still or chosen another name for our country such as Northumbria or Danelaw or even Pennineland as such aside our different lifestyle dialects accents slangs etc from the rest of Britain and our culture and history being much closer to the likes of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even Scandinavia and the Ancient Norse Vikings that once settled here under Danelaw Rule with Jorvik aka York being the capital city and the Kingdom of Northumbria stretching from the Firth of Forth in the north to the Mersey and Humber in the south and the Kingdom of Mercia at the border including Cheshire and Derbyshire and Lincolnshire all being part of it at the time
My own theories below are
just plain Northern England but with the Nordic Cross especially representing the North West domination
a revival of the Kingdom of Northumbria but in the modern day
if the Kingdom of Northumbria had survived today it may not still be based at Bamburgh Castle tho as head of seat capital but would the country name may still caused some confusion with the actual county of Northumberland and maybe a modern flag with the St George’s Cross incorporated (or technically should that be St Aiden’s in Northumbria’s case) be included beside the traditional flag and it also just looks almost similar but reverse to the current Dorset flag except it’s a red banner on white cross for theirs
and also the Nordic Cross which is exactly the same flag as both the former Orkney Nordic Cross and the former Kalmar Union of Scandinavia aswell as a reverse Skåneland flag for that matter
and if Danelaw still existed for that matter then the Danelaw Flag would have some Scandinavian colours which is actually basically the Danish and the Skåneland (Swedish province) merged in the style of the Norwegian and Icelandic flags
The flag of Northern England by jamiethebb on Reddit with the basic colours of Red for Lancashire and Yellow for Northumberland and Blue for Yorkshire even tho as they have White as their national Rose colour but anyways and it is very similar to the current Orkney Nordic Cross flag
then my personal idea of a completely new but renamed nation of Pennineland which i created as it suits the geography wise of our country and which is more biogeography based as the Pennine Mountains dominating the backbone of Northern England with the flag having both Normal and Nordic Crosses with the Blue for Ocean, Sky and Scottish Proximities and the Green for Land, Mountains and Welsh Proximities and the White for Peace and Red for the Blood of those who thought between Lancashire and Yorkshire during the War of the Roses and it is almost similar to the new Lincolnshire flag just without the Fluer-de-Lis in the middle but entirely Top Blue and Bottom Green instead
and then the same flag again but upside down with Top Green and Bottom Blue instead
and other nations I created in this case such as if the rest of England had become their own separate regions and changed names and regional flags as Mercia and Anglia merging into Angliamercia with the Flag being exactly the same as the British Union Jack with the English St George’s Cross but with Mercian St Alban’s Yellow Satire instead replacing the Scottish White St Andrew’s and Irish Red St Patrick’s colours
and then Kingdoms of Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Kent in Southern England merging into Kentwessex with the flag being exactly the same as the English St George’s but with a Golden banner on it representing the English Lions of Wessex and Sussex
and again as for Cornwall and Devon or Former Dunmonia since their more culturally Celtic along with Brittany in France with it having just the same Cornish flag but with a Golden banner included representing either English Lions or the unified union with the Welsh St David’s pre Dragon flag colours
All in all the moral of the story is i think we have our own special regions specifically all in and around England from long gone ancient kingdoms still with differences between the North and the South divide to this day with Viking Saxons Celts tribes as being most prominent especially when it comes to rivalry between counties or neighbouring countries
Would we be even be called Northern England still or chosen another name for our country such as Northumbria or Danelaw or even Pennineland as such aside our different lifestyle dialects accents slangs etc from the rest of Britain and our culture and history being much closer to the likes of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even Scandinavia and the Ancient Norse Vikings that once settled here under Danelaw Rule with Jorvik aka York being the capital city and the Kingdom of Northumbria stretching from the Firth of Forth in the north to the Mersey and Humber in the south and the Kingdom of Mercia at the border including Cheshire and Derbyshire and Lincolnshire all being part of it at the time
My own theories below are
just plain Northern England but with the Nordic Cross especially representing the North West domination
a revival of the Kingdom of Northumbria but in the modern day
if the Kingdom of Northumbria had survived today it may not still be based at Bamburgh Castle tho as head of seat capital but would the country name may still caused some confusion with the actual county of Northumberland and maybe a modern flag with the St George’s Cross incorporated (or technically should that be St Aiden’s in Northumbria’s case) be included beside the traditional flag and it also just looks almost similar but reverse to the current Dorset flag except it’s a red banner on white cross for theirs
and also the Nordic Cross which is exactly the same flag as both the former Orkney Nordic Cross and the former Kalmar Union of Scandinavia aswell as a reverse Skåneland flag for that matter
and if Danelaw still existed for that matter then the Danelaw Flag would have some Scandinavian colours which is actually basically the Danish and the Skåneland (Swedish province) merged in the style of the Norwegian and Icelandic flags
The flag of Northern England by jamiethebb on Reddit with the basic colours of Red for Lancashire and Yellow for Northumberland and Blue for Yorkshire even tho as they have White as their national Rose colour but anyways and it is very similar to the current Orkney Nordic Cross flag
then my personal idea of a completely new but renamed nation of Pennineland which i created as it suits the geography wise of our country and which is more biogeography based as the Pennine Mountains dominating the backbone of Northern England with the flag having both Normal and Nordic Crosses with the Blue for Ocean, Sky and Scottish Proximities and the Green for Land, Mountains and Welsh Proximities and the White for Peace and Red for the Blood of those who thought between Lancashire and Yorkshire during the War of the Roses and it is almost similar to the new Lincolnshire flag just without the Fluer-de-Lis in the middle but entirely Top Blue and Bottom Green instead
and then the same flag again but upside down with Top Green and Bottom Blue instead
and other nations I created in this case such as if the rest of England had become their own separate regions and changed names and regional flags as Mercia and Anglia merging into Angliamercia with the Flag being exactly the same as the British Union Jack with the English St George’s Cross but with Mercian St Alban’s Yellow Satire instead replacing the Scottish White St Andrew’s and Irish Red St Patrick’s colours
and then Kingdoms of Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Kent in Southern England merging into Kentwessex with the flag being exactly the same as the English St George’s but with a Golden banner on it representing the English Lions of Wessex and Sussex
and again as for Cornwall and Devon or Former Dunmonia since their more culturally Celtic along with Brittany in France with it having just the same Cornish flag but with a Golden banner included representing either English Lions or the unified union with the Welsh St David’s pre Dragon flag colours
All in all the moral of the story is i think we have our own special regions specifically all in and around England from long gone ancient kingdoms still with differences between the North and the South divide to this day with Viking Saxons Celts tribes as being most prominent especially when it comes to rivalry between counties or neighbouring countries
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