Lone Viking walks into a Northumbrian village. Everybody scarpers, except one old man.
Viking says to old man: “Have most of the houses been burned to the ground?”
Old man says: “No, I don’t think so.”
Viking says: “Women all been ravished, and some taken away?”
“Not so far as I know.”
“Monastery set on fire? Monks crucified?”
“Haven’t heard anything like that, no.”
Viking scratches his head, says: “I wonder where the lads have gone…”
