The late tenth century saw renewed Norse raiding in the Clyde valley from the Norse-Gaelic settlers of the western islands. Govan — now a suburb of Glasgow — was at this time a major ecclesiastical centre with its own school of sculpture. The raids threatened this Christian Strathclyde heartland and demonstrated that even a century after the great Viking attacks, the Clyde was still contested territory.
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