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The Duke of SuffolkвЂ™s defeat at Edinburgh had decimated EnglandвЂ™s capability to meet the enemy in the field and severely reduced the chances of a swift liberation of the Scottish occupied cities. Indeed, TacitusвЂ™ precept that victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan, rings hollow when it comes to the Great Anarchy of 1524-25. However, it would be unfair to attribute the вЂњtorrent of calamitiesвЂќ that swept the English realm to a single person. As such, it is undisputed that Henry VIIIвЂ™s government saw the many dangers facing the Tudor dynasty with eyes wide open, but one can only marvel at the incompetence by which it went about addressing them.

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With the Valois dynasty firmly entrenched in Milan and the emperor licking his wounds north of the Alps, it was widely anticipated that the вЂњMost Christian KingвЂќ would make good on his promise to bankroll a cross-channel invasion and install the White Rose on the English throne. Into this insular threat floated the spectre of Francis IвЂ™s pet Yorkist pretender, Richard de la Pole. Although the Lord Protector had only garrisoned the cities of Carlisle and Newcastle, Henry VIIIвЂ™s Privy Council was convinced that Albany would not be content with the spoils of the North. Northumberland and Cumberland were at the mercy of Albany, who had withdrawn the major part of his army back into Scotland - his soldiers struggling under the weight of their plunder. News of the French victory at Sciarborasca sent a shiver down the spine of the Tudor court.

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вЂќДЄ Torrent of Calamities: The Undoing of the Tudor Covenant вЂњ My masters of Ireland, you will crown apes at length. As such, it was (in my perspective) more an attempt at bringing the illustrious history of Denmark on par with that of Sweden. Mathias Gabler's 1521 poem also made mention of Christian II being king of the Goths' descendants, but also of those of the Cimbri. those sluggish Goths who opted to stay home.' The Spanish, conversely, were the scions of the 'martial' Goths who the Swede referred to To this a Spaniard supposedly retorted that this could very well be true, but if so then the Swedes would only be the heirs of '. I know that during the Council of Constance in 1417, a Swedish delegate complained that the Spanish prelates were listed higher in the Church hierarchy than him and his colleagues, since the Swedes were descendants of the Goths who conquered Rome. While I doubt that the name Gothia would catch on at this point (most primary sources quite strongly refer to the three realms by their conventional names) there might be something to a courtly, intellectual association between Scandinavia and the Goths. Icelanders and in a lesser degree Norwegians and Feroe, Shetland and Orkney islanders, would be the european populations with the best incentives to settle the cold fringes of North what was the population of Iceland and Feroe in the early 16th century? These new lands would be an escape from the periodic famine that plagued Iceland. If they discover Prince Edward's Island, both Icelanders and Norwegians would weep tears of joy in the sight of the island's excellent red soil. Newfoundland would be such a desirable destination for Icelanders - in contrast to English and French farmers. Icelanders don't need to obtain said expertise since in the inshore fishery there were huge populations of cod. The OTL settlers could have chosen to sail in the open ocean to fish, as they had the expertise.

Each bay could be a fishing village, leading to a rapid proliferation of icelandic settlements all over the coast. The inshore fishery was due go the seasonal migration of cod to the coast. That makes the Icelanders excellent for inshore cod fishing in Newfoundland. Icelanders transitioned from rowing boats almost straight to steam engines. The typical icelandic fishing boat was a large row boat that could operate only in coastal waters. Norwegians may have been great seamen and second to none, but the Icelanders were not.

The characteristics in land, expertise, climate and resources of the Nordic Realm (how should we call your united Scandinavia ?), give it an absolute and unique advantage in colonizing the boreal forests of North America. It seems to me that all the necessary ingredients are in place for a Nordic Superpower and I don't use the term lightly.