What's the Biggest Picture?

In the eleventh century, there was a lot of interest from scandinavian rulers in what's happening in britoin and ireland andnd the surrounding islands. The kings of scandinavia probably are a, oh, a lot more powerful, and maybe do feel like they can kind of rival am kings in in breton and on the continent. And i suppose i was also think, with these sot of pushi and pull factors, the m it may be that they were still sort of making reasonably informed decisions or at least trying to em tha the other sort of practical things might prevent them from launching an expedition.