U doba velike vikinške ekspanzije, negde od 800. do 1100. godine, Vikinzi su uložili skoro isto toliko energije u stvaranje sopstvene umetnosti koliko i u pljačkanje drugih.
In the great years of Viking expansion, roughly 800 AD to roughly 1100 AD, the Vikings put almost as much energy into making their own art as they did into stealing other people's.