Author of quotes: Bernard Cornwell. Page 1

The secret of walking on the oars is to do it quickly but not so quickly that it looked like a panic move.

And then fate put in my head one thought, and I realized that I will never discourage Bebbanburg, will never rise to the rock and climbed onto the wall until you do what I did Ragnar many years ago.

- Harald will pay for my freedom.
- My price for your freedom - the liver Harald.

Loki - God-a trickster, a source of trouble in Asgard, the God who deserved death. Christians tell the story of the serpent in Paradise is Loki.

Skadi was gifted with beauty, however, was the beauty of the weapons. Smooth, firm and radiant. Even as a humiliated captive, dirty and dressed in rags, she was radiant.

The mountain is supposed to hide. The man who first sang that destiny cannot be avoided, continued the song with the words have to be bound with chains of our innermost thoughts. From the saddened mind is no good, he said, and must hide the sad thoughts.

At the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree of life, sit three young girls. They spin the threads of our destiny, and these three young girls made a ball of Golden yarn of pure gold for life Ethelfled, but over the years has woven bright threads into a much darker cloth. Three young girls see a future. A gift from the gods to mankind - that we cannot see, which will be directed threads of our destinies.

- Did your gods do not reward you for good behavior?
- My gods are capricious, sir.
How can you serve a capricious God?
- I do not serve.
- But you said...
What they wilful, but so the gods are having fun. My goal is not to serve them, entertain them, and if I succeed, they will reward me in the next life.

I feel the approach of death, Lord Uhtred. It's like an ambush. I know she's there and can do nothing to avoid it. It will take me and destroy, but I don't want to be with me, she destroyed Wessex.

Together they drew up a code of laws for Wessex. For me it was fun and an honour to violate each of the laws before the king must die or Welsh runt.

Country is the history of the country, is a collection of all her stories. We than did our fathers; their victory gave us what we have.

- You will lose my family.
I shall have family. Eric and I are going to be family.

I fought all my life. It is my fate, is the fate of us all.

She made the journey, the journey of love, but it was waiting for a storm so harsh and dark that my heart almost broke from pity for her.