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“Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.” quote by Rosemary Sutcliff — Download Open image

““Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is trueborn King of all Britain.””

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“Always, in these times, I am wretched save when sleep comes to me. Therefore, I have come to look upon sleep as the best of all gifts.” - Helen, about the war”

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“See now, for a good blade, one that will not betray the man in battle, rods of hard and soft iron must be heated and braided together. Then is the blade folded over and hammered flat again, and maybe yet again, many times for the finest blades... So the hard and soft iron are mingled without blending, before the blade…

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“So Aquila took his father’s service upon him. It wasn’t as good as love; it wasn’t as good as hate; but it was something…

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But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a…

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Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I…

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...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.

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“The gilded wreaths and crowns that the Legion had won in the days of its honour were gone from the crimson-bound staff; the furious…

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Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

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“Let you sing of us all by name, that we may live as long as the song." "All three hundred of you?" Aneirin said,…

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“That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.”

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“Before he left Rome, Marcus had been in a fair way to becoming a charioteer, in Cradoc's sense of the word, and now desire woke in him, not to possess this team, for he was not one of those who much be able to say "Mine" before they can truly enjoy a thing, but to have them out and harnessed;…

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You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to…

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“We have The Idylls of the King in English class this term. I like some things in them, but I detest Tennyson's Arthur. If I had been Guinevere I'd have boxed his ears - but I wouldn't have been unfaithful to him for Lancelot, who was just as odious in a different way. As for Geraint, if I had been…

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The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the…

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“To many-towered Camelot”

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“The world eclipses and it’s just her and him. No it’s just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expose and violate him, she…

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“It made me realise just how desperate the world is for a superhero. I don’t just mean those of the comic books. For there is an inexhaustible supply of would-be superheroes throughout history and across the globe. From the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood, to the Gods of a thousand religions. From Santa Claus to Peter Pan to a myriad…

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“Operating by trial and error mostly, we've evolved a tacitly agreed upon list of the elements that make for a good fantasy. The first decision the aspiring fantasist must make is theological. King Arthur and Charlemagne were Christians. Siegfried and Sigurd the Volsung were pagans. My personal view is that pagans write better stories. When a writer is having fun,…

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“King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is—as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he…

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Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in…

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“Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.”

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“We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor does it tarry in yesterday. It…

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How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might…

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