Possible Surviving Pagan Kingdom's influence on Christan Europe?

I was recently wondering to myself, supposing that by some crazy odds, a Pagan kingdom or state managed to resist conversion by the Christians, what if any influence might the continued existence of said Kingdom have on the rest of Europe?
 
I was recently wondering to myself, supposing that by some crazy odds, a Pagan kingdom or state managed to resist conversion by the Christians, what if any influence might the continued existence of said Kingdom have on the rest of Europe?

I find it difficult. If some Pagan state would have survived, it had to be an isolated territory (Iceland, the Basque country or something like that), which means that it would have an extreme limitation on influencing the rest of Europe.
 
Lithuania/Poland

There's a case of it, and while there are many factors, they did result in large effects on the history of Europe.

Poland converted latter than much of the rest of Europe, and the Lithuania didn't convert until near the end of the 14th century. Both states were under near continuous pressure from various German orders and statelets, looking for a place to settle and lands to seize (There are patterns to European history...). Fighting against the Lithuanians and the Poles, decade after decade, is what gave the Teutonic Knights and others their organization and edge.

To note in the Lithuania case, there are pagans and then therepagans. Holding off the dominant religion of the region for half a millennium as its being pushed by some capable warriors means these are less the nice people who throw such wonderful parties in late June and more the people who'd do thing that would make a nu-metal band wet themselves in terror. They not only saw off the Teutonic knights, it catalyzed the foundation of Grand Duchy who'd run rough-shod over the region and only be converted slowly by a marriage for power.

I.e., by all accounts they were incredibly, stupendously badass.
 
I find it difficult. If some Pagan state would have survived, it had to be an isolated territory (Iceland, the Basque country or something like that), which means that it would have an extreme limitation on influencing the rest of Europe.

True. It should be very isolated area that Paganism could survive. Perhaps Iceland it could survive until 20th century but I bit suspect that. Leastly there nto be any changes for surviving paganism on continent Europe.
 
I find it difficult. If some Pagan state would have survived, it had to be an isolated territory (Iceland, the Basque country or something like that), which means that it would have an extreme limitation on influencing the rest of Europe.

Yes. So pagan polities would either have to be completely isolated geographically (a mountain or island state) or at the "frontier" of the "Western" Christian world (as were Poland and Lithuania at the time). Either way, their position "sanitizes" their influence.
 
In terms of states on the periphery of Europe, if Saint Stephen had been defeated by his uncle Koppany in the late 10th and early 11th centuries, we could have seen at least a longer-lasting Hungarian paganism. Perhaps a Hungarian victory at the Battle of Lechfeld much earlier could have ensured the same. Also, if Sweyn the Sacrificer was able to defeat his brother-in-law Inge, than we almost certainly would have seen a longer-lasting paganism in Sweden.
 
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