My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges.
G for Göta älv 1036 (2017)
Rewriting a new Kanata timeline threw up this turning point, which was a chance to solidify the dynastic ties around Northern Europe. Before the ‘our timeline’ revelation, will you recognise the real historical event or which crucial event in British history may never happen?
And all because I couldn’t stop constructing my Kanata alternative history. The initial trigger, Leif Eriksson’s permanent colonisation of Vinland, inspired me to rewrite other key episodes in history. I wanted the legacy forged from Vikings merging with the indigenous people to ripple down time. Kanata evolved into my vision of a 21st Century Viking Age.
Expect more alternative history ahead.
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Writing Wings 
It is amazing how one step can change everything, isn’t it.
Tasha 💖
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And often the one step seems minor at the time, Natasha – like the RL death of Harthacnut changed British history enormously…but not until 1066.
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Thank you for yet another intriguing snippet.
I am endlessly fascinated by alternate histories – and well aware of the mammoth researching task they involve. And the numerous rabbit holes which lie in wait…
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You are so right, EC – endlessly fascinating. Kanata started as a small rabbit hole/scenario and grew into a whole ‘history book’.
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Thanks for this snippet of Viking/Norwegian/English history, Some much still to learn. I recently watched a documentary on the Vikings from a Swedish island of the Baltic Sea, ( Orla?), a series of fortified settlements. The doc. Was on the massacre which occurred at one of the settlements, bodies left to rot, village to crumble, no signs of battle or theft. The site was left abandoned for 1500 years and deemed cursed until archeologists a few years ago started digging.
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I missed that documentary, Susan so I’ll have to delve into that. There were Viking settlements on a number of the larger Baltic islands if I remember right.
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