Sal Burger
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What if the Vikings had brought in more folks from Scandinavia and conquered France instead of England?
What if the Vikings had brought in more folks from Scandinavia and conquered France instead of England?
Cnut2) When did the Viking (as opposed to the Normans) conquer England (as opposed to Danelagh)?
Cnut
The conquest by the Great Pagan Army came closest before Cnut - Danelaw is a pretty big part of what would become England, the ruler of Mercia was a Viking client and Alfred ruled a few square miles of marshland. I don't know enough about the French state of the time to give an answer as to whether if the furore a normannorum was directed solely at the French they could conquer all or most of that area, but they were aided in the British isles by the divisions both inter and intra-kingdom to allow the invaders to divide and conquer
Yes, a couple of Danes (Svend (1013-14), Knud (1016-35)and Hardeknud (1040-42) were Kings of England and a lot Vikings settled in England, but all, Kings or "plain" Vikings blended in and soon became more English than Viking.
William the Bastard did fight his lord King Henry I of France from 1054 on.
WI instead of invading England, William the Bastard at some point crushes King of France - Henry I or Philip I - kills him in battle or captures him alive and packs off to rot in a monastery, captures Paris and tries to make himself King of France? How would the vassals of Henry/Philip react?
If hypothetically, Paris was conquered and the King and his family dead would France remain France. Would Southern France gell into a kingdom of Languedoc focused at Tours with a separate identity like they almost did otl?
Would Northern France be more Franco-Danish.
If hypothetically, Paris was conquered and the King and his family dead would France remain France. Would Southern France gell into a kingdom of Languedoc focused at Tours with a separate identity like they almost did otl?
Would Northern France be more Franco-Danish.
Remember that the culture of England is better described as Saxon-Danish on the eve of the Norman conquest. We know this from looking at the material culture, reading the reports of the time (Edward the Confessor was a fanboy of Norse sagas). England looked at Scandinavia as cultural kin.
The Norman conquest smooched the culture together and seen as "Saxon".
With the Danes killing Alfred in the swamp we probably have a more Danish-Saxon culture. It probably delays the conversion of Scandinavia (fewer or no Anglo Dane missionaries) at the very least.
Applying it to France, a Northern France as a Scandinavian-Franco state and Southern France as Languedoc is possible.