These Three Realms United: A Restored Kalmar Union By Milites-Atterdag Watch

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This is, paradoxically, a quite old map. I started work on it in January this year and finished it a few months later. However, as I made it as an illustration for my much trumpeted counter factual history, I didn't post it until I reached the events which the map portrays: the restoration of the Kalmar Union.



Basically, Christian II of Denmark is a lot smarter and manages to conquer Sweden without chopping off the heads of half the Swedish council of the realm. The specific details are a bit more complicated, but I'm not going to get into that here.



The provincial (fief) borders of Norway (and hundreds) and Sweden are historically correct for the period 1520-1570, whilst the Danish equivalents are alternate history. The Icelandic subdivisions are also not entirely historically correct, being more geographical terms than actual administrative divisions, but since I couldn't find any credible sources (despite the help of the excellent @ Kuusinen ), I went ahead and used the east/west/north/south demarcation.



As this was made before I changed my workflow away from Photoshop and completely unto Illustrator, it has a different feel to it than my last maps (some may even say dated), but I like it a lot none the less.

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