The rest merely requires common sense; it is like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is.
The men, who a moment before had been cursing and cumbersome creatures clambering down the clay bank into the clumsy boats, were mysteriously transformed into warrior silhouettes, spiky with weapons,...
The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop, the king said, and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that he has succeeded.
The Britons have never learned to love the Saxons. Indeed they hate us, and in those years when the last English kingdom was on the edge of destruction, they could have tipped the balance by joining G...
She is a woman, and what women want, they get, and if the world and all it holds must be broken in the getting, then so be it.
Remember the old saying, my lady, he said slyly. Put a cat to watch a flock and the wolves eat well.
Quell'estate, secondo il nuovo computo degli anni che ci hanno insegnato i cristiani, era il 497 dopo la nascita di Cristo, ed era un'estate radiosa, splendente di sole.Artù era al vertice, Merlino si...
Poor Uther. He believed that virtues are handed down through a man's loins! What nonsense! A child is like a calf; if the thing is born crippled you knock it smartly on the skull and serve the cow aga...
Pelos ossos de Deus, Tom, o diabo fez um serviço ruim quando trepou com sua mãe.
Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn’t possess is worthless.
Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect.
Never do what an enemy expects, Dudda. We’ll go in at dawn. On the flood.
Most folk consider that a woman aboard a ship brings nothing but bad luck because it provokes the jealousy of Ran, the goddess of the sea who will abide no rivals,
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spel...
It’ll be an honour to serve you, sir, he added.In a French battalion? Gudin teased him.If you don’t flog, sir, and you don’t carve up pricks, then it’ll be more than an honour.
Instinct is a strange thing. You cannot touch it, feel it, smell it, or hear it, but you must trust it,
If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he’s not, he won’t, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.
If an oath is a mistake then you are still obligated because you are sworn to it.
I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oa...
I ran with him and suddenly I was released from fear as the mad, God-given joy of battle came to me for the very first time. Later, much later, I learned that the joy and the fear are the exact same t...