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That joy. That madness. The gods must feel this way every moment of every day. It is as if the world slows. You see the attacker, you see him shouting...more

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I decided to start a war, father", I said, cheerfully, "it's so much more interesting than peace.

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Men do not relish the shield wall. They do not rush to death's embrace. You look ahead and see the overlapping shields, the helmets, the glint of axes...more

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Serpent-Breath was famous...Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.

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Some had hurled spears first. Those spears thumped into our shields, making them unwieldy, but it hardly mattered. The leading Danes tripped on the hi...more

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Together we would make reputation, we would have men in halls across Britain telling the story of our exploit. Or of our deaths. They were friends, th...more

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But we do not choose our deaths. The Norns do that at the foot of Yggdrasil and I imagined one of those three Fates holding the shears above my thread...more

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An English man-at-arms had his helmet split open and his skull with it, so that he rode wavering from the fight, blood pouring down his mail coat. His...more

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You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You wi...more

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It will never end.Till the world ends in the chaos of Ragnarok, we will fight for our women, for our land, and for our homes. Some Christians speak of...more

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The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn ...more

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Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straight...more

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And I looked,' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book,' he ...more

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This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

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I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I would worry about Æthelflaed. This was family. Thi...more