A parede de escudos.
A battle in the shield wall. It's smelling your enemy's breath while he tries to disembowel you with an axe, it's blood and shit and screams and pain and terror. It's trampling in your friends' guts a...
Мерлин обичаше да казва, че животът е шега на Боговете и в него няма справедливост. Трябва да се научиш да се смееш, каза ми веднъж той, иначе просто ще плачеш докато умреш
É uma coisa ruim estar sempre combatendo, disse ele a ela: Enquanto estou no meio daquilo fico atarefado demais para sentir qualquer coisa; mas logo depois a sensação é deplorável. É praticamente impo...
É uma coisa estranha que notei com relação aos cristãos. Eles afirmam que nossos deuses não têm poder, no entanto temem às maldições feitas em nome desses deuses.
Watches
Understand, and then, of course, the Danes had come, and they tore the churches apart to steal the silver from the altars. I remember Ragnar laughing one day. It is so kind of the Christians! They put...
The rocketmen ran for cover. The missiles
Press,
Ignored Truslow, trusting instead in the Colonel’s largesse.
All the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin’s corp...
Abandoned the weapon because of its propensity to shatter the shoulders of the men pulling its trigger, but in Patrick Harper the seven-barreled gun had found a soldier capable of taming its brute fer...
You’re to grovel. Æthelwold spoke for the first time. He grinned at me. We were not exactly friends, but we had drunk together often enough and he seemed to like me. You’re to dress like a girl, Æthel...
You’re a boy playing in men’s games, Sharpie, and you’re going to lose unless you’re a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, S...
You're a bastard, I said.Uhtred, he began, but could find nothing more to say.You're a piece of weasel-shit, I said, you're an earsling.I'm a king, he said, trying to regain his dignity.So you're a ro...
You know what circumcision is, Private?
Wyrd bi ful aræd.
Win your war, Lord Uhtred, he said, then take her away from us priests and give her lots of children. She'll be happy, and one day she'll be truly wise. That's the women's real gift, to be wise, and n...
Why do they put cows over the gates, sir?For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe.
What is an oath? A promise to serve a lord, but to Christians there is always a higher allegiance.