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My favourite ancient example are the vitrified forts found in Scotland and a few other places - large amounts of stone walls partially melted - nobody knows how
by arethuza 4y ago
My favourite ancient example are the vitrified forts found in Scotland and a few other places - large amounts of stone walls partially melted - nobody knows how this was done or indeed whether it was intentional:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort
- 988747 4y agoDuh, stone was melted when the Targaryen family used their dragons to conquer Scotland and make it one of the Seven Kingdoms.
- arethuza 4y agoOne of the larger vitrified forts, Tap O' Noth, provided me with imagery that I used to visualise Weathertop from LotR - this was well before the movies. I did even check to see if Tolkien had ever visited the area to see if there was any connection but no luck - unlike, for example, Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland being the real world Rivendell.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoHm, I thought that Scotland pledged fealty without a fight, the last king of Scotland just bent the knee.
- arethuza 4y agoYou've got it the wrong way round - the last King of Scotland actually also became the King of England, the countries were united by a political process some years later - largely to pay off debts following one of the most ill conceived colonisation attempts in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoNo. No. No. King Torrhen Stewart, "the king who knelt", sweared an oath of fealty to the dragon king Edward Targaryen, first of his name. It is known.
- taneq 4y agoClearly the vitrification of these forts was the result of wizard battles.