I can see Voldemort having an orchestra of screaming muggles. Maybe even have a room full of muggle furniture too.

 

Viking raid-tactics didn't allow for much more than storming the wooden palisade/rammed-earth wall of a town, kill the men, grab the wimmunz, shinies, some meat then back TO THE CHOPPA! Not so much an issue of patience as an issue of staying alive since Viking raids almost guaranteed a chase by local militia/military. If they stayed around to dig under the tower and collapse part of it using sappers their ships would have been burned and their small-ish forces bum-rushed by an angry local garrison.

Unless they were a group of Viking settlers which means the monk's will meet the Almighty a tad sooner than they expected

Also, I doubt many monks knew how to handle bows and arrows.

 

You kidding? It was a law back then that every 'able bodied lad' was to practice wielding a longbow on a Sunday under the supervision of the clergy. It meant that almost every teenager in the country could be conscripted into the army with very little necessary training. England's longbows are the reason they were a military power back in the Medieval period.

Aekiel

 

Pity most nations don't do the same with guns now-days eh?

 

Indeed. It's why no one fucks with the Swiss. That and the global economy.

 

The English longbow was only introduced when Wales was subjugated and the longbow was somewhat a "specialist" weapon. Locals and small militia forces probably had the regular short bow. Then again short bows are as good as any to shoot people with when you're firing from a tower.

The English lads defended themselves this way, but (I'm probably incorrect) I think the Irish monks weren't subject ot that ultra-english training.

Funny thing is that the Enligh monks were the ones most heavily targeted by the Vikings because they often didn't get around to getting one of those phallic towers. They just got massacred.

 

Yeah... We had the unfortunate habit of building monasteries without 'keeps' to hide in. Plus, it was easier for the marauding Vikings to travel to England than Ireland, given that they would have to put up with both the English and the Celtic navies (what little there was) to reach the other side. Why risk losing a ship or two when you can just as easily land on the closest shore?

 

Yeah. Apart from a 40-year period where they went around Britain and attacked Ireland instead.

 

Damn, must have missed that part >_>. I'm more of a Renaissance man, so a few mistakes can be forgiven. Still, fortifications like that were likely built to defend against English or Scottish invasion, given that we were a arrow-happy bunch during the Medieval period.

Aekiel

 

The Vikings probably taught the Irish a few things regarding the treatment of invaders. Look at the Spanish Armada that got wrecked off the Irish coast when El Draque sent them packing - either captured by Irish nobles and handed to the English to be barbecued, or torn apart by the locals.

 

You know...except for the few hundred years of oppression.

We did send the Normans packing though. They kep control of Munster and Leinster but they never conquered Ulster and Connacht.

Oh and..

 

I beg to differ. Everyone fucks with you just a little for ages, it's only when you get fucked hard that it cuts out quickly. Vikings would rarely bring the equipment to burn down a tower anyway. They were trained for raids not proper battles, which is why they targeted monks.

QFT....I think. From what I recall monks rarely kept any weapons at all as well, let alone be well trained in archery. I think the few times they fought back was with shovels and hoes (If anyone puns that they get a pole up their ass).

As for thread derailment...meh it was gonna happen. I can imagine Voldemort up in a stone tower himself, looking over his land comic-book style. I think of Voldemort as a kind of Dr Doom, likes the finer things in life but still a wierd cunt. He probably transfigures things into animals and watches them fight.

He reads too, no doubt about it. In a dark green, puffed up chair with a footrest. In a green velvet dressing gown. With a pipe. And, and reading glasses. Theres a shaggy brown dog at his feet to, on a rug next to a roaring fire. He AK's anyone who disturbs him. Would he still have a British accent? If so, the image in complete.

 

Hmm....I always thought he used all his spare time to practice all his crappy rule-the-world speeches and evil laughter....

 

Perhaps we're approaching this the wrong way.

What did Hitler do in his spare time?

 

Hitler? Tea parties. He was having tea parties with his little Jew-teddies...of course their tea was poisoned...but Hitler wasn't going to tell that to the teddies

Or he may have been working on his autobiography.....