Let's say that before becoming king Alfred the Great suffers either a fatal or entirely crippling accident and the Norse invaders mange to conquer Wessex around 880. What would happen from here?
Let's say that before becoming king Alfred the Great suffers either a fatal or entirely crippling accident and the Norse invaders mange to conquer Wessex around 880. What would happen from here?
No. Normans (as Franco-Normans) weren't a thing before 911. Before that Rollo had indeed several ties with Anglo-Norse populations and territories, but a full conquest of England would probably butterfly Normandy, at the very least how it happened.Well, a Norman invasion might actually be more likely, given the way Vikings feud and dynastic conflicts.
Much more Germanic, with relativly important Scandinavian elements (nowhere close to OTL French ones, due to the historical mix between Norses and conquered populations) and without, much probably, Franco-Norman influence.To me, I'd be interested to see how this would change modern English.