my innermost sanctum

how come?

i posed this question to a cumbrian at the local the other day which went like this:
the viking's plundered and pillaged
1. the coastal areas of scotland and also settled on the shetland and orkney islands
2. much of ireland that they even founded the cities of dublin, cork, waterford amongst others
3. a teeny wee bit of the north west, the north east and a huge chunk of the east of england right up till the midlands

but astonishingly, wales was left untouched. unscathed. how come?

he replied it was the women that repulsed the viking's. nay, i countered. it was because they only saw sheep, sheep and more sheep that's why. nothing else but sheep for miles on end.

and that also explains why the viking's didn't disturb much of cumbria. it's the sheep, i added.