Jason Born > Quotes

“The following spring was a time of calving. Great icebergs calved from the vast glaciers which stretched down to our fjords from distant mountains. The heifers and cows of Kaupangen gave birth to over one hundred calves that spring. Most survived. Gudrod, the master shepherd, had seventy-five new lambkins skipping after their mothers. Ten sets of lamb twins were born in the city that year. Bitches had pups suckling at their breasts. The mountain goats that stood watch over the fjord, indifferently chewing on the wild grasses between the rocks, had kids following them on their steep paths. The residents of the city, too, gave birth. Twenty-one new healthy babies were born within thirty days of the spring equinox; boys and girls with thick blonde, brown, black, or red hair; others with smooth bald heads. Olaf, my third father, my king, had a son, stillborn. Olaf wept. Kenna wept. I wept as the boy was buried inside the casket with his mother in our graveyard by the church.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“Fate has ruled my life since I was born.  My plans mean nothing to my life.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“You are not men who long for a weak enemy!  You are warriors from the North.  You demand a strong enemy.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“my fate was known only by Odin and those three norns who spin the threads of our lives for us.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“Christians had universal writings and rituals they followed in their faith.  The old gods required none of that.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“What more did Midgard have to offer our intrepid race of men?”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“The new faith was going to be difficult for our people to swallow.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“Even still, it wasn't over. For if a battle could be won so easily, men would soon forget its horrors and clamor for it all the more. War would come more than once or twice a generation. Easy victories would produce men who were struck dumb with their own unbelievably improbable successes. Such men wold begin to think they had devised not the superior tactic, but rather the supreme tactic at winning”
― Jason Born, Wald Vengeance

“At that moment, I was certain no army in all of Midgard could have been more invincible.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“I said skraeling the same way I would have said the name of any foreign race, for I was raised to distrust those from outside my native fjord.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“We wanted to be rid of them as soon as possible because taking care of slaves is expensive.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“I should depart from a faith my kindred have held for generations before me?  I will never!”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“why we as his followers had to fight so hard to convert others if the God was so powerful.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“Without any additional treachery, Eudo had shown her a way for her family to be safe. ”
― Jason Born, Where Devils Tread

“I'll not deny it. I am lucky. Do you think that Arminius could have won that battle in the rain without me there? I'll answer for you. Of course not! Now, I'm not saying my actions that day warranted any certain praise. No! I am lucky. I shit luck.”
― Jason Born, Wald Vengeance

“The great Sugambrian shrugged. "I did. I supposed you've proven your worth. But no man should have to kill his own father. I should know.”
― Jason Born, Wald Vengeance

“Septimus grinned. "It's not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.”
― Jason Born, Wald Vengeance

“Olaf still followed our mighty gods of Odin, Thor, and the rest from the god-realm of Asgard.  Not the weeping Christian God.”
― Jason Born, The Norseman

“Though Lampegia’s birth was at first illegitimate, the duke and Maria have worked to make it right.  God himself has taken it further and made it perfect.” “All”
― Jason Born, Where Devils Tread

“They would not wait for death’s parched wind to engulf them. They would strike and win. Or, they would die with honor. .”
― Jason Born, Where Devils Tread