What would've happened if the Great Heathen Armt had succeeded?

>>3049449

Britain would be more like modern day Scandinavia

It would've probably been the first instance of a European country reconverting from christianity to paganism. But it would possibly also have given the continent impetus to invade England on theological grounds.

>>3049455

Why didn't Englanc become more Scandanized when Cnut the great invaded with his army?

>>3049470

The cultures themselves were largely not *that* dissimilar, the language was effectively mutually intelligible, and in fact many old norse words are used daily in English speech due to the Danelaw like; window, law, they, them, and their

>>3049582
Yeah, England only became noticeably different from Scandinavia after the Normans took over and de-Germanized a large portion of the language/culture.

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>>3049462
Which is why the Normans carried a banner sent to them by the Pope at Hastings

>>3049633
>and de-Germanized a large portion of the language/culture
I thougt the Normans were Norse Germanic, is this false ?

>>3049462

Actuallly...
Britain was partially Christianized during Roman times, when the Saxons arrived Paganism was "reintroduced".
So it would be the first country to have Paganism "reintroduced" twice and then being rechristianized once more.

>>3049582
The languages were quite different but during the what, almost 300 years, of Danish presence on the island, the two languages incorporated a lot of the other.

>>3050325
No, its because William asked the pope for approval of his invasion and Alexander most likely gave it because of french influence.
King Harold was actually fighting the Norwegian at the time William invaded.

>>3050349

They were but they adopted the languages of the lands they settled creating the Norman dialect

It did succeed. In Ireland.