Ragnar: We live to fight another day
Ragnar Lothbrok : “In my mind, I wish I had never left the farm.”
Erlendur : “A Viking never gives up on his revenge. This is who we are.”
Ragnar: You give the Gods too much credit
Harbard: “I try to live like the gods. I reject everything of this world… Honor and glory, love of oneself, even shame. I only care about the will of the gods. Only then can everything worldly pass away, can the voices of the gods be heard. And then their spirit dwells in me, and I feel the ability to heal and prophecy. And take on the sins of the world… Upon myself.”
Athelstan: “I’ve asked for a sign. You have given me a sign. You’ve answered my prayers. I was blind, but now I see. I was dead, but… I’m reborn.”
Björn Ironside : “When the spring comes, and my blood heats up, I want nothing more than to raid and fight.”
Ragnar: “I would worry less about the gods and more about the fury of a patient man.”
Lagertha: “I was hoping that I could cheat the fates.”
Floki: “Everything I do, Ragnar, is for you.”
Ragnar : “Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.”
Ragnar: “I cannot stop thinking about death. Death intrigues me. The death of children. The death of friends. But my own death continues to elude me. In my world, it is believed that the day of your death is fated. Would you like to know the day of your death?”
Ragnar Lothbrok : “We fight. That is how we win, and that is how we die.”
Floki:
“I have had a sign. A sign that blood must be
spilled, a sacrifice be made. I have waited a long time for such a sign. And now my purpose is clear.”
Aslaug: “It is the Gods that have woven our destinies, not ourselves”
Ragnar: Don’t waste your time looking back you are not going that way
Rollo : “As long as my brother is still alive, he is not defeated.”
Floki: “The space between life and death, that’s where we are the most alive.”
Björn Ironside : “You can all say whatever you want, but he was a human. People started to talk as if he was a god. He was not a god,he was a man! A man with many dreams and many failings.”
Lagertha: “We have one life… so go and live it.”
Björn : “There is nothing more beautiful than a mother.”
Floki : “Axe time! Sword time! Shields are splintered!”
Floki:
“Thor was angry with us. He beat his anvil and the waves grew
ever taller. Soaked the boats, and one went down, heavy with water.
We saw it, and heard the cries of the men hauled down into the deep.
And then, at first light, we saw another had vanished. Storm wrecked, the men all drowned.”
Halfdan:
“My mother told me
Someday I would buy
Galley with good oars
Sail to distant shores
Stand up high in the prow
Noble barque I steer
Steady course for the haven
Hew many foe-men, hew many foe-men”
Floki: “I hate you, Ragnar Lothbrok. And I love you with all my heart. Why do you tear me away from myself?”
Yidu: “You will die on the day that the blind man sees you.”
Kwenthrith: “Do you know what would have been better for me? Can you even imagine? To have been born a man.”
Floki:
“When the God Loki had done something terribly bad, the other Gods took him to a nasty dark cave. And there they chained him on three sharp rocks. And above him they fastened a vile snake so that its poison would drip, drip, drip, forever on Loki’s face.”
Ragnar: “Thor came to a deep channel. The sun dazzled upon the water. On the far bank, a figure sprawled in the sun, his flat-bottomed boat beside him. “Hey,“ yelled Thor. “You over there! Are you the ferryman and
whose ferry is that?” The figure sat up. He cupped his hands and shouted, “Hildolf, the slaughtered wolf, entrusted it to me! And he has given me my orders! So, if you want to cross here, tell me your name!” Demanded the ferryman. “Mmm, I’ll tell you. I am the son of Odin, the strongest god of all. So ferryman, you are talking to Thor!” The god’s words made waves across the water, they broke at the ferryman’s feet. “Now tell me your name,” said Thor. And the ferryman, he stood up and he shouted, “My name is Harbard! I seldom hide it.”
King Ecbert: “Force is only necessary against one’s enemies.”
Ragnar : “I always believed that death is a fate far better than life, for you will be reunited with lost loved ones. But we will never meet again, my friend, for I have a feeling that your God might object to me visiting you in heaven.”
Harbard: “Possession is the opposite of love.”
Floki : “I feel trapped, in all this happiness.”
Lagertha : “Frey, god of plenty, shining Frey, we summon you. We offer you this sacrifice. Frey, son of Njord, you who decides when the sun rises, or the rain comes down, bring forth the fruitfulness of the earth. With the blood of this sacrifice, nourish and make fecund mother earth. With your phallus, fill her womb for the increase of the earth. Now is the time.”
King Ecbert : “It is true that the more complicated a person is, the more interesting he is. But at the same time, the more dangerous he is.”
The Seer : “I see that an eagle hovers over you. But I also see that you yourself are the eagle.”
Yidu:
“Someone needs to control
what, apparently, you cannot.”
The Seer,: “The gods are here. They’re watching.”
Ragnar: “In my world, I am constantly torn between killing myself or everyone around me.”
Vikings: “We bring you the Yule log! May the gods be praised! People! May the Yule log burn throughout Yol, and bring its warmth and light to us in these darkest of days. And to King Ragnar and his family, may they feel the warmth of the fire, like the love of the people!”
Floki : “Floki the carpenter. Floki the fisherman. Floki the father!
Poor child to have such a father!”
Ragnar Lothbrok:
“I hung from a windy tree for nine long nights, wounded by a spear, dedicated to Odin, from that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run.”
Rollo : “Always remember to finish off your opponent, if you can. No man ever ran away with his entrails hanging to his knees, or his head cut off.”
Floki:
“Nearby is Valhalla, vast and gold-bright. And every day, Odin chooses slain men to join him. They arm themselves and fight in the courtyard. They kill one another; but every night they rise again, and ride back to the hall, and feast. The roof is made out of shields. The rafters are spears. Coats of mail litter the benches. A wolf stands at the Western door and an eagle hovers above it.
It has five hundred and forty doors, and when Ragnarok comes, eight hundred warriors will march out of each door, shoulder to shoulder.”
Athelstan : “Suffer no more, but trust in thy salvation.”
Floki:
“Fenrir, the giant wolf, could not be constrained by any means known to man, so the dwarves forged a chain, but not from metal. Nothing made by man could constrain Fenrir, so they forged it from the things we cannot see and the things we cannot hear. Like the breath of a fish… the sound a moving cat makes. The roots… of a mountain.”
Athelstan:
“Imagine that the sun shone at night, and the moon during the day. And then imagine that everything you knew about Jesus Christ was not true, and that the true God was a living man, with a single eye, a cloak, a wide-brimmed hat. And that this man, Odin, the all-father, knew the secret of every heart, and the destiny of all men. And that he, too, was hanged from a tree, and died and was reborn. Only, it happened a long time before christ. Before our Lord.”
Floki : “The fly always follows the dead meat.”
Sinric: “After all, everything that goes around, finally comes around.”
Lagertha: “Dark shapes come to me at night. Monstrous forms. When I wake, they skulk in the shadows, shapeless, but no sooner am I asleep than they creep forward again.”
Ragnar : “No man can walk through life without things happening to him.”
Aslaug:
“The giant King’s servants carried a trencher into the hall and set it down before the throne. They heaped it with hunks of chopped meat, and it reminded Thor that rather too long had gone by since they had last eaten.
A chair was provided for Loki at one end of the trencher, and for Logi at the other.
At the word from the giant King, they both began to eat. They gobbled and consumed and devoured. Each of them ate as fast as they could, edging their chair forward, and they met at the middle of the trencher. Loki had eaten every scrap of meat and left nothing but the bones. But Logi had not only eaten the meat, he had eaten the bones, and the trencher as well.
“I would say,” proclaimed the giant king, “that Loki is the loser.””
Ragnar : “When your time comes, you must lead with your head, not with your heart.”
Ragnar : “In the Bible, it says that all sorrows will pass.”
Yidu: “In my world, you must have a life worth living before you can even consider death.”
Yidu: “They took me on a long journey, for days and weeks. And afterwards they sold me to the Franks. And now, I am here. I am here, wherever “here” is. And it’s so long since I knew where I was, or where I belonged. I suppose it is stupid for a slave to worry over such things. A slave does not really exist.”
Ragnar : “We should not wash our dirty clothes in front of others.”
Lagertha: “Who knows, Ragnar, what the gods have in store for us. But this, I can never imagine. If you have gone to Heaven, then we will never meet again. And yet, I think Odin will ride like the wind, and rescue you, and take you to Valhalla, where you belong, my own sweet Ragnar. And there, there we shall meet again, and fight and drink and… love one another.”
Rollo: “Don’t die stupidly.”
Athelstan : “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the sun. A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal…”
Vikings
“Up onto the overturned keel,
Clamber, with a heart of steel,
Cold is the ocean’s spray,
And your death is on its way.
With maidens you have had your way,
Each must die some day!”
Björn Ironside “Winter is coming”
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