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“.... if we cite other scholars without critical thinking, or without wondering why and in what context something was written, we risk perpetuating ideas that we may, in fact, not know to be correct ...”
― The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom
― The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom
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“... history is a fog, a fog of uncertainty. The deeper one peers into it, the murkier and more uncertain the fog becomes. The instant an event has transpired and begins receding into the past it becomes vulnerable to memory and interpretation..”
― The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen
― The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen
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