Viking Pomerelia?

Would what be the results of an extended Viking settlement on the Vistula delta (Gdansk-Truso area)?
Would we have a Danelaw in Pomerania-Prussia area?
Would Mieszko of Poland award "Gydania" to a viking ruler ala Charles gave Normandy to Rollo?
What would be the results of this Christian duchy on the Baltic Coast? I can certainly see the Wendish Crusade going different.
Would Poland fragment further or hold together more?
etc etc
Your views please :)
 
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Look up the threads barring the Vikings from the West. It just had all the spoils up for graps.

The incentive to go to those southern shores of the Baltic just wasn't there.

But the Danes were about to do it in the 12. century but really lacked resource, especially population surplus. That had gone to England in the 5. - 6. century.
 
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Easy now!

Look up the threads barring the Vikings from the West. It just had all the spoils up for graps.

The incentive to go to those southern shores of the Baltic just wasn't there.

But the Danes were about to do it in the 12. century but really lacked resource, especially population surplus. That had gone to England in the 5. - 6. century.

Don't think the search function works well for me as couldn't find much about that hence why I wrote this thread.
Could you summarize the threads (or provide a link to them)?
So....assuming greater direction east.....???
 
Here we go -
htp://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=108480&highlight=vikings
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=108396&highlight=vikings
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=106658&highlight=vikings
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=94440&highlight=vikings
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=89284&highlight=vikings

just a few I've dug up by searching for "Vikings". There should be several more of the kind.

I'm not sure you wold have something like a Normandy in Pomeralia the Wends being just as seafaring and wild as the Vikings at least in the 11.-12. century.
As already mentioned the Danes tried in cooperation with the Saxons in the 12. century but lacked resources - manpower. There wouldn't be any more some centuries earlier and you would most likely see something developing like the Rus kingdoms of Russia. Small Viking nobility class ruling lots of Slavs.

And as fragmented as "Poland" was those days - its rulers didn't get to the Baltic shores until the Wends crusades by joining in on the Danes getting their share of the spoils - I really don't see any grant of land from a Polish ruler. Only what any Viking chieftain might carve out for himself.

Actually I think - in light of the Wendish crusades that the Poles might benefit from such settlement because of the Vikings may ally to them against their common enemy, the other rulers!

Of course the river mouths would provide good points for Viking settlement (Saxo write they did) to explore the hinterlands and get their hands on trade. That would surely make them the enemy of any ruler in the area or at least ally untill they could be driven off. :D
 
Some useful links there AW. Don't know how I missed the Vikings Blocked from West one!
I did not know that the Wends were "slavic vikings", interesting. Maybe that's why there was no extensive settlement there: bunch of wild savage warriors go off to pillage another bunch of wild savage warriors ;)
 
To put it into perspective: The Vikings attacked, pillages and enslaved mostly people that weren't as warlike, or at least have a history of incompetent leadership, like French, English and Irish. The Wends attacked, pillaged and enslaved Vikings. ;)
 
To put it into perspective: The Vikings attacked, pillages and enslaved mostly people that weren't as warlike, or at least have a history of incompetent leadership, like French, English and Irish. The Wends attacked, pillaged and enslaved Vikings. ;)

After which the Vikings came back as crusaders and attacked, pillaged and ehh - converted Wends. :D
 
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