A man who loves his daughter does not let her go into Wales.
A hall-burning, Rorik said bitterly.Hall-burning?It happens at home, Rorik explained. You go to an enemy’s hall and burn it to the ground. But there’s one thing about a hall-burning. You have to make...
Imbecille?- Certo. E sul fatto che sia un imbecille non possono esserci dubbi. Pensaci un attimo! Lancillotto vive, Mordred vive, Cerdic vive e Ginevra vive! Se qualcuno vuole vivere in eterno a quest...
Ground, then drank some and fancied it
You're giving up the hunt for de Taillebourg?' Thomas asked. He had learned the priest's name from Robbie. 'No.' Robbie still had his head back as he stared at the magnificence of the transept's ceili...
When a man must choose between nothing and everything he has small choice.
Language is now my trade, boy, because I have become a skald.’ ‘A skald?’ ‘A scop, you would call me. A poet, a weaver of dreams, a man who makes glory from nothing and dazzles you with its making. An...
It is a terrible thing, Beocca said to me. War, it is an awful thing.I said nothing. I thought it was glorious and wonderful.The shield wall is where men die, Beocca said, and he kissed the wooden cro...
If prayers could make a man into a Christian then I would be a saint ten times over by now.Destiny is all. And now, looking back, I see the pattern of my life’s journey. It began in Bebbanburg and too...
He came from the gutters of England and anyone born and raised in those gutters knew that most persecution and oppression was inflicted by lawyers. Lawyers were the devil's servants who ushered men an...
Because when he returns, Richard, he would be the biggest man in town. He wants revenge on his childhood. He wants the respect of the town. Saint Paul tells us that when we were children we spoke as c...
Are you familiar with Saint Cuthman? Alfred asked me cheerfully.No, lord.He was a hermit, Alfred said. We were riding north, keeping on the high ground with the swamp to our left. His mother was cripp...
Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered? she asked the table at large in an acid voice.You want warriors to be courtiers? Celwin retorted brusquely. You'd send your precious poets to kill the Frank...
And on my conscience, he said, I will for ever bear the weight of all those men who died in a hopeless cause. Two thousand against five thousand? How can 1 justify leading so few against so many?You k...
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Gli uomini sono degli sciocchi - ha asserito Igraine, poi mi ha guardato di sottecchi. - Tu hai mai tradito Ceinwyn?- No - risposi, ed era la verità.- E non hai mai avuto il desiderio di tradirla?- Oh...
Galahad - mi diceva - è innamorato della perfezione ed è troppo schizzinoso per amare una donna in carne e ossa. Ama le donne come concetto, ma non sopporta la loro realtà, le malattie, il dolore, il...
The only purpose a Council serves is to make you all feel important.
The joy of it. The sword joy. I was dancing with joy, joy seething in me, the battle joy that Ragnar had so often spoken of, the warrior joy. If a man has not known it, then he is no man. It was no ba...
Sharpe wanted to be ready and so he untied the rag from his musket’s lock and stuffed it into the pocket where he kept the ring Mary had given him. The ring, a plain band of worn silver, had belonged...