Books Quote by the Havamal

“These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We received our coloring from Norsemen. Hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones…

— Janet Fitch

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

“In 869 we have an event which rapidly achieved almost mythic status in English Christian folklore: the horrible martyrdom of King Edmund of East…

— Heather O'Donoghue

He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I say no wealth is worth my life! Not all they claim was stored in the depths of Troy, that city built on riches,…

— Homer

“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

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which…

— John Calvin

“Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he…

— Scotty Smith

“YOU HAVE KILLED YOU HAVE STOLEN YOU HAVE DESTROYED. DEVOURER OF LIVES DEVOURER OF SOULS YOU ARE DEFEATED! ROAR O LION OF JUDAH PROCLAIM…

— David Holdsworth

“Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations.”

— David Gemmell