PC: You will have to read the thread to find out it is rather complicated

In mid to late future I was thinking of making a TL with the following POD:

Hardrada and Tostig win at Stamford Bridge (1066) and Harold Godwinson dies. When William of Normandy invades just weeks later the two sides make a sort of deal splitting Britain in half. An independent nation in the north ruled from York/Jorvik (by Tostig?) and a Norman controlled area in the south.

I know it sounds bait far fetched, but IMHO it would be an interesting result for a TL.
 
In mid to late future I was thinking of making a TL with the following POD:

Hardrada and Tostig win at Stamford Bridge (1066) and Harold Godwinson dies. When William of Normandy invades just weeks later the two sides make a sort of deal splitting Britain in half. An independent nation in the north ruled from York/Jorvik (by Tostig?) and a Norman controlled area in the south.

I know it sounds bait far fetched, but IMHO it would be an interesting result for a TL.

What's going to stop Hardrada from killing Tostig and then going to invade William's half of England>
 
May be appealing to the Norwegians, considering that the Danelaw was pretty well established as only managing to control the North, so the North was a pretty reasonable patch of land for them to aim for. On the other hand, good luck convincing William to give up fully half of his new Kingdom when he would consider himself strong enough to defeat Hardraada and Tostig, and would likely consider their "claim" to be an insult to his own, stronger, claim.
 
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