
Hinge Points S2E1: Dog-gone-erland
Chapo Trap House
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What if There's No Danelaw Really?
Viking invasions are just more dispersed and less cataclysmic. So perhaps, you know, the Viking era is less of a thing. The question that I think is really compelling here is what if there's no Danelaw really? You know, what if you're able to come together as even if the Western Roman Empire has these sorts of large qualities but also unified units like in Gaul. Do you actually either, if not totally fight off the Vikings because their military capacities were just like very, very effective at the time? That's sort of what makes England interesting is you have that unique blend of Northern European with the collapsing Western Roman.
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