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 men with leather or mail mostly possessed helmets and had proper weapons, swords or spears, while the rest were armed with axes, adzes, sickles, or sharpened hoes. Eadred grandly called it the Arm...
The hellequin, she said icily, are the dead who have no souls. The dead who were so wicked in life that the devil loves them too much to punish them in hell and so he gives them his horses and release...
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 Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims.
The English chevauchée was a tactic to destroy a country’s power, to starve the lords of taxes, to burn their
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...
That man is my Arthur, a great warlord and a hero who fought against impossible odds to such effect that even fifteen hundred years later his enemies love and revere his memory.
That is why battles of the shield wall are slow to start. Men have to nerve themselves for the horror.
Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.
So long as there is war there will be warlords. Leaders. What makes a man follow a leader? Success. A warrior wants victory, he wants silver, he wants land, and he looks to his lords for all those thi...
So I do my duty, Sharpe said, and land in the shit. You have at last seized the essence of soldiering, Hogan said
Religion makes strange bedfellows.
Ravn had given me much advice and all of it was good, but now, in the night wind, I remembered just one thing he had said to me on the night we first met, something I had never forgotten.Never, he had...
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...
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that s...
Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn’t possess is worthless.
Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said.
O orgulho faz o homem, impulsiona-o, é a parede de escudos ao redor de sua reputação, e os dinamarqueses entendiam isso. Os homens morrem, diziam eles, mas a reputação não.
Now, waving flies from his face, he told the two deserters what they might expect.