Eppure sono convinto che Artù sarebbe rimasto in Dumnonia, se avesse ricevuto ciò che desiderava, ossia la gratitudine. Era un uomo orgoglioso e sapeva bene ciò che aveva fatto per il nostro regno, ma...
E enquanto houver um reino nesta ilha varrida pelo vento, haverá guerra. Portanto não podemos nos encolher para longe da guerra. Não podemos nos esconder de sua crueldade, de seu sangue, do fedor, da...
Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness.
Defend what’s left. You can have fifty men.Fifty! That’s not enough...Forty, I snarled, and if you lose the fort I’ll cut your kidneys out and eat them.We were at war.
But deep under the earth, where the corpse serpent gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, there are three spinners. Three women who make our fate. We might believe we make choices, but in...
And we screamed. We screamed our war cry, our shout of slaughter, our joy of being men in battle who are driven by terror.
An army isn’t made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That’s an officer’s job.
Abel Becket had never seen as much of his wife's breasts as Mrs. Loring saw fit to present to the world.
A humble god! You might as well have a toothless wolf! The gods are the gods, ruling thunder and commanding storms, they are the lords of night and day, of fire and ice, the givers of disaster and of...
So we rode through a broken gate in a broken wall into a broken town, and it was dusk, and the day's rain had finally lifted, and a shaft of red sunlight came from beneath the western clouds as we ent...
Æthelfrith
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Your mother didn’t give birth to you, I told him, but farted you out of her shriveled arsehole.
You should always plan your battles form the enemy's point of view.
You don’t buy a dog and bark yourself,
Yet to complain of the world’s unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction. Unfairness existed, it always had and it always would, and th...
We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked.
Tomorrow, he shouted, you do not fight for me! I fight for you! I fight for Wessex! I fight for your wives, for your children and your homes! Tomorrow we fight and, I swear to you on my father's grave...
To be discreet, ‘he looked up to glare at Æthelflaed, ‘chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!’ Those are God’s own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, t...
Till time ended, Baird suspected, there would be uses for a man and his sword. He