“Unable to force them out for capture, they lit large fires at the cave entrance that deprived them of oxygen...slowly suffocating to death.”
Nice guys, those Vikings. How could big, strong, fierce, well-armed Vikings not force a bunch of farmers and villagers out of the cave?
There’s been an agenda afoot in recent years to claim that, hey, they weren’t such a bad lot.
A dominant force isn’t always interested in taking any losses when they don’t have to.