How the hell did the Danes lose all of this? What went wrong?

>>836964
>implying Danelaw isn't a meme

>>836964
Canute died and norsemen did what they do best, fight each other

>>836964

Monarchism has little to do with the national aspect. The nation and tribe had no prevalence here other than all of that was owned by a Dane.

>>836979

>implying everything isn't a meme

>>836964
When they even keep Poland?

They get some possessions in Baltic and Pomerania but none in Poland.

>>837473
Thats map from Wiki and yellow marks Knut's allies. Poland was allied to Danmark through matrimonial connection. Some Polish knights were recorded as taking part in Knut's invasion of England.

Also, Poland at that time still included Pomerania.

>>837499
Ah yes married to Piast princes.
I was thinking that it was map of Danish possessions which would be bollocks.

>>836964
a lot of that are probably had very low population

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>>836964
Because Danes are retarded.

>Be Canute
>Promice Norwegians no tax and more privilages, only if they submit
>Norwegian King Olav II is BTFO by peasants
>Norwegian allies with Canute
>fast forward
>faggot wife Ælfgifu of Northampton thinks it is a good idea to implement taxes
>rebellion
>Norwegians elect Magnus, son of Olav II as King
>ends up with the Danes electing Magnus aswell

Top fucking kek.

TL;DR Canute was a just ruler, to bad his Danish successors were to retarded to know how he was succesful in the first place.

>>839130
Do weebs have to ruin fucking everything? Or is it just optional on their bucket list?

>>836964
No one else was able to be a sick Cnut.

>>836964
Basically imposible to maintain such an "empire" with the sea distance.

Besides complications in government, it didn't help that so many of the Vikings were largely independent, even when governmentally commissioned, and that often their main interest was to provide themselves and their community with resources to survive and thrive. Scandinavia lacked in many raw materials except for fish, lumber, wool, iron, and a few other things. Most vikings didn't see any problem with assimilating with the people they had previously come to steal from, as long as they liked what the new location had to offer, and even when a new government was formed in a "conquered" land, they would usually end up assimilating anyway, because long-established cultures had already been there, and Nordic mercantilism was more important than tradition (such as Kiev, Dublin, Normandy, etc).

At least that's my take on it.

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>>839336
I don't normally read that sort of shit but Vinland Saga was pretty fucking good
don't give it a miss

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>>840506
seconded

>>842313
This is my first seinen

>2017
>Brexit is old news
>Queen Elizabeth II dies
>Prince Charles exposes himself as a closet muzzie
>British public gets angry. Even muzzies are angry (muzzies are always angry).
>Queen Margrethe II of Denmark pops over
>"Hej! How is the Engelske folk? We had our Danexit."
>"Not good", replied the British collectively.
>North Sea Empire 2.0

Fractionalised, catholics to the south, resistance, indept rulers. Denmark has had a very, very long history of indept kings.

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>>839263
so being just is about abolishing death and taxes?

>>836964
you made your language too unreflective.
>er er er all the time.

>>836979
was it?