Alternate History

Lords of the Baltic and the Northern Sea

If Denmark won the Battle of Bornhöved — and discovered America

Saxon World Chronic — Battle of Bornhöved, public domain

Valdemar II of Denmark, later called ‘The Victorious’, was an ambitious monarch. Then Denmark was the most powerful state in Northern Europe (consisting of today’s Denmark, Southern Sweden, and a strip of Northern Germany). He wanted…