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"Sometimes we kill the thing we love. Sometimes we see in our brother or even our close friends a part of ourselves. If we kill our friend for evil, we still weep because we have killed a part of ourselves in doing so."

"Sailors always grumble. Once they feel the planks bucking under their feet and get the sound of the sea-mews in their ears, they will forget all this. A Viking is born, my son, and never escapes his destiny. As some men love horses and others love hunting wolves, so a Viking loves ships, every plank and rope of them, and he is never happy unless he is riding the track of the whale, treading the path of the gannet."

"So hard and his father Sigurd came to the village at last."

"Life is never sure, Harald. Whichever way a man turns, he thinks he might have done better to take the other path."