WI Surviving New England

What if the former English outpost in the Crimea survived to the modern day.
What would be some likely effects.
Would Siward eventually become King?
Would this land become independent from Byzantium?
What would be the likely linguistic scenario, Greek or an English/Gothic creole?
 
They'd have to remain vassals of Byzantium to survive against the constant influx of nomadic horse archers from the east (e.g. Pechenegs, Cumans, eventually Mongols). If Constantinople falls, "Old New England" falls with it.

Once gunpowder is invented or they go native and become horse archers themselves, they'll be able to hold their own. Perhaps by then they'll be Greek Orthodox, and form a counter-Russia. Except they may be called Varangia, as Black Sea New England was mostly founded by veterans of the Varangian Guard.
 
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