At this moment, the Swedish king "Elder" Edmund . Munso was hesitant to be wooed by the Normans and the Pope, and was unable to decide to join either side.

On the one hand, as a civilized Viking king, he converted to Christianity in order to gain recognition from the European nations and to use God's authority to strengthen the crown of the Munso family and prevent it from being left behind.

Pope Leo offered two conditions, one was to promise him to participate in the partition of England, Ireland and Normandy, and the other was to personally crown him king of Sweden after the war, declaring him the only legitimate, divine monarch.

This last of these was the most attractive to King Edmund.

Guy was thus King Edmund of Sweden at the time. Munso's position was not so secure, and his son-in-law, Duke Stenhill of the House of Stinkel of Visigotland, was a favourable contender for the throne.

King Edmund took over the Swedish crown from his late brother Olaf, who was 47 years old and was known as the "Elder".

He had a total of three sons and a daughter, and the untimely death of the eldest and second sons brought a huge blow to him, but the third son was a shy and cowardly fellow, and compared to his two deceased sons, he was really very unhappy.

The most painful thing for him was that his only son, against his will, turned his back on the Catholic faith and turned to Germanic polytheism, believing in the ancient Odin and Thor, the god of thunder.

Beginning with his elder brother Olaf, the kings and nobles of the Kingdom of Sweden had mostly converted to the Catholic faith, and it was impossible for a pagan Germanic polytheist to gain their support to inherit the Swedish throne.

And at this time, his son-in-law, the great aristocratic chief of southern Sweden, Duke Stenhill of Visigotland. Stinkel gained the support of the Swedish aristocracy and became a strong contender for the Swedish throne.

Faced with the danger of falling from the throne, the only thing he could do was to leave Upplan, the land of the Munso family, to his only son.

However, now Pope Leo IX's promise has given him a turning point, as long as he is approved by His Majesty the Pope, crowned by the Pope himself, and with the support of the Catholic Church, the crown of Sweden can be passed to his only son Eric.

In addition, the Swedish nobles were also eager to conquer the lands of England and France, and it was itchy to watch the nearby Norway and Denmark drink and eat meat, so under the promise of Leo IX, a large number of nobles asked him to declare war on William.

The desire for conquest and the desire for a warm, fertile land was not only possessed by the Swedish nobles, but also by him, King Edmund.

But cooperation with Norway and Denmark, the feud of the Kingdom of Sweden, is also emotionally unacceptable.

King Edmund knew very well that Sweden, which survived in the gap between the two countries, was undoubtedly the weakest one compared with Norway and Denmark, which were powerful countries, and cooperating with Norway and Denmark was tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger.

It is conceivable that once they were victorious, the lion's share of the spoils would eventually be divided between Norway and Denmark, while Sweden, the weakest, would receive only a few of the dregs they had discarded.

As a result of the war, Norway and Denmark grew stronger, while Sweden struggled to survive between them, perhaps one of them in the end.

Once Sweden joins the ranks of Norway and Denmark, no matter how King Edmund deduces, he will end up with a disastrous outcome for the Kingdom of Sweden for their choices.

At this time, King William of the Normans sent his emissary, Russell, Earl of Suffolk. Morality. Bayol, on mission to the Kingdom of Sweden, came to persuade Edmund I to join the Normans.

The Normans offered him support for King Edmund's seizure of the coastal possessions of southern Sweden from the Kingdom of Denmark

- The Duchy of Scanne, supporting him in his quest for the Eastern Kingdom from the Kingdom of Norway.

Even Count Russell offered that William was willing to support him in seizing the crown of the Kingdom of Norway and allowing Sweden to completely unify Scandinavia.

The complete unification of Scandinavia was the ultimate goal that successive kings of the Kingdom of Sweden had imagined day and night.

The Normans made the offer, which was apparently approved by King Edmund, and his ambition to unify Scandinavia was aroused by Count Russell.

Count Russell did more than that, he sent people around the Swedes to tell them about their humiliating history of being bullied by the Norwegians and the Danes, inspiring hatred for them and the Danes, and at the same time spreading rumors that the Norwegians and the Danes planned to join forces to trap the Swedes in the war, with the intention of dividing up the kingdom of Sweden.

Count Russell's plan to sow discord succeeded, memories of humiliation were awakened, and the Swedes, as if suffering from persecution paranoia, raised a hundred thousand wariness against the Norwegians and the Danes.

Now they did not dare to act rashly, and even the nobles who had been clamoring for the conquest of the land under the sun had died down in this wave.

However, it was the decision of Edmund the Elder, King of Sweden, to decide whether or not the Swedes joined the Norman camp.

While lobbying King Edmund of Sweden and the Swedish aristocracy, Count Russell did not forget William's orders. Morality. Baron Valen traveled to Mecklenburg and Pomerania to persuade the tribal chieftains there to attack the Kingdom of Denmark from the flanks and threaten Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire.

William was never a devout Christian, and with the exception of the Moors, he was very tolerant of the Pomeranian chieftains who believed in Norse animism and Slavic polytheism.

In his previous life, he was a faithless countryman, but in this life, William was also influenced by this and had a tolerant attitude towards the faith, and he would not take coercive measures against the church and the clergy unless it threatened his rule.

Pomerania is a historical regional name in Central Europe, now located in northern Germany and Poland, on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, with major rivers including the Vistula, Oder and Reyknitz rivers.

In the late 10th century, the Grand Duke of Poland, Mieszko I, conquered Pomerania, but by 1038 Poland had a non-Christian uprising, and Pomerania became independent and divided into two Slavic animistic tribal emirates, the Mecklenburg and Pomeranian tribes.

The Mecklenburg tribe is located in the western part of the Pomeranian region, close to the Schleswig and Holstein regions of the Kingdom of Denmark, and across the sea from Zeeland, the capital of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Mecklenburg's strategic location was a direct threat to the Danish territory.

The Pomeranian tribe located in eastern Pomerania, its capital of Shzcze, is directly adjacent to the capital of the Duke of Brandenburg.

If they could persuade the two countries to succeed in joining the Normans, they would at least be able to hold back a large part of the Danish and Duchy Brandenburg's forces against Wilhelm.