Roger Lancelyn Green > Quotes

“Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood

“Underneath this little stone
Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
No other archer was so good -
And people called him Robin Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men
Will England never see again.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood

“The big knight fell heavily to the ground, and lay there, as nearly dead as possible. His servants came running from the castle and took him in. He got better in the end, but nobody cared much about that.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

“The Name "Arthur" The etymology of the Welsh name Arthur is uncertain, though most scholars favour either a derivation from the Roman gens name Artorius (ultimately of Messapic or Etruscan origin), or a native Brittonic compound based on the root *arto- "bear" (which became arth in Medieval and Modern Welsh). Similar "bear" names appear throughout the Celtic-speaking world. Gildas does not give the name Arthur but he does mention a British king Cuneglasus who had been "charioteer to the bear". Those that favor a mythological origin for Arthur point out that a Gaulish bear goddess Artio is attested, but as yet no certain examples of Celtic male bear gods have been detected. John Morris argues that the appearance of the name Arthur, as applied to the Scottish, Welsh and Pennine "Arthurs", and the lack of the name at any time earlier, suggests that in the early 6th century the name became popular amongst the indigenous British for a short time. He proposes that all of these occurrences were due to the importance of another Arthur, who may have ruled temporarily as Emperor of Britain. He suggests on the basis of archaeology that a period of Saxon advance was halted and turned back, before resuming again in the 570s. Morris also suggests that the Roman Camulodunum, modern Colchester, and capital of the Roman province of Britannia, is the origin of the name "Camelot". The name Artúr is frequently attested in southern Scotland and northern England in the 7th and 8th centuries. For example, Artúr mac Conaing, who may have been named after his uncle Artúr mac Áedáin. Artúr son of Bicoir Britone, was another 'Arthur' reported in this period, who slew Morgan mac Fiachna of Ulster in 620/625 in Kintyre. A man named Feradach, apparently the grandson of an 'Artuir', was a signatory at the synod that enacted the Law of Adomnan in 697. Arthur ap Pedr was a prince in Dyfed, born around 570–580. Given the popularity of this name at the time, it is likely that others were named for a figure who was already established in folklore by that time.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, King Arthur Collection

“No longer are you Sekhmet the Slayer: you are Hathor the Lady of Love. Yet your power over mankind shall be greater even than it was – for the passion of love shall be stronger than the passion of hate, and all shall know love, and all shall be your victims.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“Truly men do ill to jeer at any who cannot do what they can do themselves - for ever it seems that there is something that they can do better.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood

“...The great wooden doors screamed open on their pivots - yet not so loudly did they scream as the man who lay with one of the pivots turning in his eye as punishment for the evil he had done upon earth.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“[They returned] as ordinary, living father and child, in time to see the sun rise beyond the eastern desert and turn the cliffs of Western Thebes to pink and purple and gold as a new day dawned over Egypt.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“Then the silence was broken by a whisper soft as a feather falling, yet which seemed to fill the whole Temple with sound: 'Follow me now, my father,' said the voice of Se-Osiris, 'for the time is short and we must be back before the morning if we would live to see the Sun of Ra rise again over Egypt.'
Setna turned, and saw beside him the Bai or soul of Se-Osiris - a great bird with golden feathers but with the head of his son.
'I follow,' he forced his lips to answer....”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“Heavy was the heart of the evil-doer and it dragged down the Scale....”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“[He] would have cried out in horror if the silence had not pressed like a weight that held him paralyzed.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“...The corpse sat up, ghastly in the moonlight, and held out its withered hand.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“...The night fled away in the joy on their reunion.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

“...One red gash of sunset shone....”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt