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“For he was a gentle heart and a great king and kept his oaths; and he rose out of the shadows to a last fair morning.”
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“Wyrd bið ful āræd.”
― War of the Wolf
― War of the Wolf
“I have often suspected that Loki, the trickster god, invented Christianity because it has his wicked stench all over it. I can imagine the gods sitting in Asgard one night, all of them bored and probably drunk, and Loki amuses them with a typical piece of his nonsense, "Let’s invent a carpenter," he suggests, "and tell the fools that he was the son of the only god, that he died and came back to life, that he cured blindness with lumps of clay, and that he walked on water!" Who would believe that nonsense? But the trouble with Loki is that he always takes his jests too far.”
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“Perhaps the Romans were right to be wary of the formidable females of Britain -wise women, prophetesses, priestesses, Ladies, Queens; we'll never capture exactly how they saw themselves and how their communities saw them, but they appear charismatic, formidable, powerful even in death.”
― Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
― Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
“Too many unstable words are spoken
by him who ne'er holds his peace;
the hasty tongue sings its own mishap
if it be not bridled in.”
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by him who ne'er holds his peace;
the hasty tongue sings its own mishap
if it be not bridled in.”
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