Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.
Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. It
King Edmund of East Anglia is now remembered as a saint, as one of those blessed souls who live forever in the shadow of God. Or so the priests tell me. In heaven, they say, the saints occupy a privil...
It was while he was on the tower thatRobbie came to the rampart beneath. 'I want you to look at this,' Robbie called up to him, and flourished a newly painted shield. 'You like it?'Thomas peered down...
I wanted to see a pattern in the strands of life. In the end I found one, and it had nothing to do with any god, but with people. With the people we love.
I stood on the dead horse and spread my arms. I held the shield high to my left and the sword to my right, and my mail coat was spattered with blood and the snow fell about my wolf-crested helmet and...
I knew it was stupid, knew I would probably die if I went again, but we were warriors and warriors will not be beaten. It is reputation. It is pride. It is the madness of battle. I began beating Serpe...
I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not held Bebbanburg and its lands by whimpering at altars. We are warriors.
He’ll fight like a bull,’ I said, ‘and he’s honest. But does he think like a wildcat?
He says he’s going to die. He’s got a what do you call it? A premonition. He says it’s because he’s going to be married.’ ‘What’s that got to do with it?’ Price shrugged as if to demonstrate that he w...
And then the horn sounded. The horn gave a clear, cold note like none I had ever heard before. There was a purity to that horn, a chill hard purity like nothing else on all the earth. It sounded once,...
An enemy sees his attackers laughing? It is better than all the insults. A man who laughs as he goes into battle is a man who has confidence, and a man with confidence is terrifying to an enemy. For t...
Superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).
Even be here,’ Douglas snarled. The Scottish knights had been summoned by
Different ways. Some to Spain, others to
You’re a Christian?Of course!You believe in miracles? I asked, and he nodded. Then you’d better fetch your five loaves and two fishes, I went on, and pray that your wretched god provides the rest.
When a man cannot fight he should curse. The gods like to feel needed.
Você nunca, nunca deve contar seus crimes aos outros, a não ser que sejam tão grandes a ponto de não poderem ficar escondidos, e nesse caso descreva-os como política ou ação de Estado.
This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...
They make laws that no one wants, then make money disagreeing with each other what the damned law means, and the more they disagree the more money they make, but still they go on making laws, and they...