What If Canute's North Sea Empire Survived? | Alternate History

In the year 1028 Danish Viking, Canute the Great, had successfully united the realms of Norway, Denmark, and Saxon England under his kingship. The resulting union has come to be known as Canute's Empire, or the North Sea Empire, though regardless of what you call it, chances are few will have heard of it, as despite the tremendous potential this almost empire held, it fractured almost immediately upon Canute's passing. Why did the North Sea Empire collapse? Could it have survived? What if Canute's North Sea Empire survived? We'll be answering those questions in today's video, covering both the history and alternate history of this Viking Empire that almost existed.
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[historywithhilbert]

Pleasure working with you on this one!

[magicaljagical]

What if Christianity spread to Central Asia instead of Islam?(or what if Nestornism stayed in Central Asia?)

[MonsieurDean]

We'll have another video out next Saturday around the same time! Stay tuned!

[Guardias]

I see this timeline as an absolute win.

[pudding_pot_pie]

Saw the name of Canute immediately thought of Vinland Saga

[TheKing-mmme]

Mr Z, thank you so much for this, I’ve taken a interest in this over the past few weeks, and it comes out on my birthday! Keep it up mate!

[ironwolf]

Thanks for the video. The North Sea Empire is an often forgotten topic, which is surprising given it was the second most powerful entity in the region after the HRE..

[newromanianmappernrm]

Here's one: What if Vlad the Impaler got the support he was promised? IRL, before his temporary but highly successful (mostly since the majority of the ottoman army was away sieging another place to be fair) campaign into Ottoman ruled lands, Vlad was promised the support of Hungary in his war against the ottomans, but said support would end up never coming. So, what if instead of just little Wallachia, you had Wallachia and all of Hungary invading the ottomans, with the papal gift never being taken by the hungarians (or if it was taken by the hungarians like irl it would be used for the war effort at least) either potentially, one could have a much more successful attack against the Ottomans, which seeing as just Vlad's little campaign supposedly got quite the major reaction all over the place from Italy to Kaffa, even if this wasn't a successful campaign in the end it *could* reinvigorate Christendom to try a more final and more proper crusade against the Ottomans

[Malcalore]

This is such a footnote that here in Norway this "empire" is basically unheard of to the point of there not even being a norwegian article about it on either Wikipedia or the Great Norwegian Lexicon (Store Norske Leksikon, SNL). It isn't even deemed worthy of mention in the general history of norway page on SNL so that was rather strange. The internal Chrisitianisation probably took all the attention away from the supposed Danish rule over a then recently united Norway.

[wargamesmaster]

You know, there's one "what if" question I would love to see answered, what if one of the Diadochi "empires" (the generals of Alexander the Great who waged war after his death to see who would succeed the Macedonian leader) survived?

[blob]

What if Italy united during the Renaissance?

[achaeanmapping]

I really didnʻt expect Hilbert to show up. Its great to see you colab with all these great youtubers!

[sirsausagedog]

I love how you can just tell that he couldn't be bothered to draw the Norwegian fjords

[emperor]

Can you do a video on what if Germany and Britain stayed friends before WW1

[mimisbrunnr]

It would be cool if you made a video about the Carthaginians winning the second Punic war

[ironwolf]

Another thing, but the Norse had a fair relationship with their Northern cousins the Rus. If the North Sea Empire survived, I could see them strengthening their relationship with the Kievan Rus dynasty, especially in terms of trade. And if some alliance was formed, then they might've had abit of an easier time against the Mongols, with their joined forces. Who's to say how it would turn out, but still I think the possibility is intriguing.

[jimothyworldbuilding]

That part with Vinland. Oh Thorfinn could've been a very happy man.

[T_Dun]

Loved this one. More Anglo-Saxon/Viking scenarios please!

[noahrice]

This is actually pretty interesting. I’m gonna make a conworld based on this, with many conlangs, as well as much alternate history

[travishunt]

Vinland Saga moment
*seriously go watch or read vinland saga*