PRE-ROMANESQUE SCULPTOR, English
(active 10th century in northern England)

Stone cross (detail)

10th century
Stone
Yorkshire Museums, Middleton

The Vikings, whose original home was Scandinavia, first raided then settled northern Britain and France. Their descendants, the Normans, later conquered England and southern Italy.

The picture shows part of a stone cross representing an armed Viking settler in northern England.




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