I heard only last week that they want to make Erkenwald into a saint. Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just a few paces from the fires...
I had unlaced my cheek-pieces, let them see the blood on my face, see the blood on my mail, the blood on my hands. I was a man of gold and of blood. I was a lord of war and I was filled with the rage...
His charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill.
He was watching my eyes. A man who uses a sword with lethal skill always matches his opponent's eyes.
He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,’ Alfred said, ‘not his head. You can change a man’s heart, but not his head.
Do you know who wins battles, boy?We do, Father.The side that is least drunk, he said, and then, after a pause, but it helps to be drunk.Why?Because a shield wall is an awful place. He gazed into the...
Did I know all that at eleven? Some, I think. It lay in my heart, unformed, unspoken, but hard as a stone. It would be covered over in time, half forgotten and often contradicted, but it was always th...
Destiny is all, Ravn liked to tell me, destiny is everything. He would even say it in English, Wyrd biõ ful ãræd.
Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once
But Alfred could not live long. He was already an old man, well past forty years, and now he was looking to the future. He
Beware the man who loves battle. Ravn had told me that only one man in three or perhaps one man in four is a real warrior and the rest are reluctant fighters, but I was to learn that only one man in t...
Bem, graças a Deus eu não sei o que é perder uma batalha, mas certamente nada pode ser mais doloroso do que ganhar uma com a perda de tantos amigos.
And you, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Uhtred of Nothing, will die last and die slowest because you have betrayed the gods. You are cursed. You are all cursed! She cackled then, a mad sound, before pointing t...
And next morning, as my stepmother wept on the ramparts of the High Gate, and under a blue, clean sky, we rode to war. Two hundred and fifty men went south, following our banner of the wolf’s head. Th...
And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love.
And Wessex was the last kingdom of England.
An archbishop is important to the Christians, he knows more sorcery than ordinary priests, even more than the bishops, and he has more authority. I have met several archbishops over the years and ther...
Alfred would not listen. He was a clever man, perhaps as clever as any man born, but he did not understand battle. He did not understand that battle is not just about numbers, it is not about moving t...
A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that.
Então Guinevere quebrou o juramento do matrimônio - disse Nimue. - Você acha que ela foi a primeira? Ou acha que isso a torna uma prostituta? Nesse caso a Britânia está cheia de prostitutas até a bord...