“He who searches for enlightenment, Shall find confusion. He who seeks to slay another, Shall slay himself. He who travels to the deepest reaches of the Underworld, Shall find heaven. He who has lost his soul and cannot save himself, Shall save us all.”
― Heroes of Medieval Wales: Daughter of Time/The Good Knight: Two Historical Series Starters
― Heroes of Medieval Wales: Daughter of Time/The Good Knight: Two Historical Series Starters
“FOR AS LONG AS THERE is wind in the mountains; for as long as there’s salt in the sea; for as long as rain falls on these green hills; I will stand with thee.”
― Heroes of Medieval Wales: Daughter of Time/The Good Knight: Two Historical Series Starters
― Heroes of Medieval Wales: Daughter of Time/The Good Knight: Two Historical Series Starters
“The main fact is that out of these and similar dim transactions arose the claims of Edward I. to the over-lordship of Scotland,—claims that were urged by Queen Elizabeth’s minister, Cecil, in 1568, and were boldly denied by Maitland of Lethington. From these misty pretensions came the centuries of war that made the hardy character of the folk of Scotland. {10}”
― A Short History of Scotland
― A Short History of Scotland
“Honor is lost a day at a time—a year at a time—not all at once.”
― Heroes of Medieval Wales: Daughter of Time/The Good Knight: Two Historical Series Starters
― Heroes of Medieval Wales: Daughter of Time/The Good Knight: Two Historical Series Starters
“The later years of the Romans, who abandoned Britain in 410, were perturbed by attacks of the Scoti (Scots) from Ireland, and it is to a settlement in Argyll of “Dalriadic” Scots from Ireland about 500 A.D. that our country owes the name of Scotland.”
― A Short History of Scotland
― A Short History of Scotland
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