Ragnar Lothbrok Quote by Heather O'Donoghue

“Legend has it that many of the raids conducted on England, Francia and Frisia during this time were led by Ragnar Lodbrok (Ragnarr Loðbrók,…

— Njord Kane

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

— Chris Hemsworth

“All illustrate the “theory of courage,” which Tolkien called “the great contribution of early Northern literature,” meaning both Icelandic and Old English literature. It…

— Nancy Marie Brown

The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.

— Travis Fimmel

“I am naturally a Nordic — a chalk-white, bulky Teuton of the Scandinavian or North-German forests — a Viking berserk killer — a predatory…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Ragnarok. Is that all the North ever thinks about? Is that what you want, Snorri? Some great battle and the world ruined and dead?”…

— Mark Lawrence

“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded from Æthelred…

— Simon Keynes

“Fafhrd, his back to a great oak, had his broadsword out and was holding off two of Rannarsh's henchmen, who were attacking with their…

— Fritz Leiber

“... As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“He rises bloodless from dust, with dead eyes that are pits twin reaches to eternal pain. He is the lodestone to the gathering clan,…

— Steven Erikson