United Viking Scandinavia?

I'm sure this isn't a new idea on this site, as it seems to be a pretty popular idea even among people that do not write AH. (I'm also sure you can figure out why I am asking), But what is the best way to unite Scandanvia, and the Viking peoples under a single leader, have their nation, and the Norse faith, last as long as possible.
 
minor linguistic issue ... viking wasn't a people, but the old norse name for going out in the world to pirate, raid or trade depending on the opposition they had at the exact moment, later including conquering. (and they could easily do everything on the same trip, being rather pragmatic about what would give the best returns)

The Norse Faith was argubly 'dead man walking' from Charlemagne onwards as he pushed quite aggessively for missionaries being sent north. And while Christianity didn't get a solid grip before ~950-1000ad, helped from the fact that the norse settling down in Normandy or the Brittish isles quickly converted, and the interrelational trade between them and their homelands, and to a lesser degree between the Swedish (mainly) and down the Rus Rivers to the Eastern Roman Empire where many hired themselves out as mercenaries in the Varangian guard (Harald Hardrada being one of the most famous).

As for getting a unified Scandinavia, most often used PoDs are a successful north sea empire (with or without England), or a staying Kalmar Union, which had boatloads of issues, as the the focus for each contry was quite different, with Denmark (and the king) focusing aggessively south towards the north germanic dutchies, Norway (such as it was, with the decimination of the nobility by the Black Death), focusing on merchantile relationships towards the North Sea Isles and Frisia, and Sweden focusing aggessively towards the baltic countries and proto-russia, while aiming at a merchantile relationship with north germany to trade their Iron ore. The differing opinions between how to act towards North Germany being the primary disargeement, together with simply not being able to focus in all directions as once
 
The slight issue is that the vikings raids were partially issued from the political division in Scandinavia : no unifying authority, struggle over local power (and need of ressources to strengthen or maintain its influence), etc.

A strong, pan-Scandinavian entity may actually have enough power to prevent raiding, or at least limit it to its political interests.

That's quite speculative, that said.

Scandinavian chiefdoms and petty kingdoms were the mirror of Norse culture : different rites (rather than an unified faith), different speeches, different histories.

You'd not only need to make these entities focusing on inner structuring, and then go trough a long process of unification whom they didn't had the ground for (actually, raids probably provided that) : cyclical chiefdoms and hegemons as Gudfred regularly failed because of structural issues.

A stronger, and unified kingdom of Danemark after the IXth century would be already quite something (and probably divert raids on England and Western Francia, with more focus on Frisia and Germany).

Asking for more, is, IMHO, really pushing it giving the societal organisation of Scandinavian chiefdoms.
 
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