Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring givers, the gold givers.
La gente non rinuncia alle proprie speranze, solo perché è delusa, Derfel; semmai vi si aggrappa con un'intensità ancora maggiore. Siamo davvero degli sciocchi.
It never occurred to me that they might not accept it, yet looking back I am astonished that the battle of Cynuit was fought according to the idea of a twenty-year-old who had never stood in a slaught...
It is not difficult to be a lord, a jarl, or even a king, but it is difficult to be a leader.Most men want to follow, and what they demand of their leader is prosperity. We are the ring-givers, the go...
In the middle of the nineteenth century a railway line was made from London’s Fenchurch Street to Southend and, when excavating at what is now South Benfleet (Beamfleot), the navvies discovered the ch...
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 shook my head. ‘Killing isn’t woman’s work,’ I said. ‘Why not?’ she asked. ‘We give life, can’t we take it too?
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...
Haesten.If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.
But you can get arrows from the
Anything that comes from the north is bad news.
And that was what the Christians had been doing in their church, consecrating their wizards by making boys into black-clothed priests who would spread their filth further, and my son, my eldest son, w...
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...
A leader leads, Ragnar said, and you can’t ask men to risk death if you’re not willing to risk it yourself.
I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.
Superb book Mercia and the Making of England (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2000).
Our oaths.’ He advanced down the path
Of jackets that had their sleeves threaded onto two poles cut from an ash tree
Could feel the torn, knurled rim that had held the small lens of the eyepiece. The