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This was the era of the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, formed in Britain and Scandinavia under the king of England, Canute, a Danish prince. It didn't outlast him by long (and Norway was independent until the 1020s) but the coincidence of political consolidation in northern europe with brief settlement in north America is interesting.

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Norway was independent until 1397.

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It was part of Canute's empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire) for a few years in the early 11th century, until his death.