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Thor Odinson, that bastard, is apparently a hero in a "comic book" and "movie franchise" and they thought he was lying.
Here I want to see those men of hard voice.
Those that break horses and dominate rivers;
those men of sonorous skeleton who sing
with a mouth full of sun and flint.
As long as you were willing to drink beer, get rowdy, and proclaim yourself a Viking, you had a place at their table.
If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.
Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its
foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Fear of vikings build castles.
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
Oh yes. I was telling you about my research into the old Norse sagas- the mythology of ancient Scandinavia. Have you read them?"
"Uh no."
"You'd like them, Cassie." He waved the hand with the chalk in it. "All sex and violence."
I frowned. "Why would you think that I'd-
These are northmen, Uncle. The north remembers.
The only possible answers are questions. Real Vikings are questions. The answers are what the Vikings chanted during the voyage to keep their spirits up.
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
Thor's Morning Wood
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
The cast of 'Vikings' is a real team, a true ensemble. It's a mad, eclectic, great bunch! But we support each other and trust each other completely. There are no egos.
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
I was born a Saxon, but raised by Danes, my daughter had married a Norseman, my dearest friend was Irish, my woman was a Saxon, the mother of my children had been Danish, my gods were pagan, and my oath was sworn to AEthelflaed, a Christian. Whose side was I on?
Dark gods beneath the ground in the Frostfangs,
Troll welcomes you to Norway, (these legendary creatures live throughout the mountains of Norway)
My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.
What are men compared to rocks and trees?
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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, they were oath-men, they were young, they were warriors, and with such men it might be possible to storm the gates of Asgard itself.
The West-march of the Walmart Held all the food in the world, Bottled beer by the boatload, Frost-kept food, milk and meat. Setting up for a siege behind barricades The Norsemen fetched food, collected clothing, Turkish trousers with flies in the front Kept closed with clever contraptions, Tiny
What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?
I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
Being a Viking's guarian angel is hard work...
Asgard has fallen. The gods are dead. The old oaths have been broken. And tell all who will hear: the Valkyrie ride to war.
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
You know, there's a joke in there somewhere. A Highlander, a Viking, and a Samurai walk into a bar.
MaleKith! I'm Loki of Jotunheim!
Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs.
Nonsense. It's elves!
Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.
I would have so loved to learn about the Vikings."
Lillian snorted. "Since when have you been interested in warlike pagans with silly-looking headgear?"
Daisy looked up from her book again. "Are we talking about Grandmother again?
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
Watch out for that effelant. They're green and like the taste of Vikings.
What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.
Sometimes, when I tell folk my story, they ask why I did not run away from the pagans, why I did not escape southward into the lands where the Danes did not yet rule, but it never occurred to me to try. I was happy, I was alive, I was with Ragnar, and it was enough.
If the Danes are outnumbered," my father told me that night, "they won't fight. They're like dogs, the Danes. Cowards at heart, but they're given courage by being in a pack.
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
It is this kind of resourcefulness, I think, that explains how this hardy band of Vikings managed to survive more than one thousand years on an island that is about as hospitable to human habitation as the planet Pluto - if Pluto were a planet, that is, which it's not.
What are men? Mortal gods.
What are gods? Immortal men.
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
It's all fun and games until the drunk Viking Santa shows up.
Could be anyone. The Kin. I mean ... it's like calling yourselves the People. It's what pretty much every race-name means. Except for Dalek. That means Metal-Cased Hatey Death Machines in Skaronian.
With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.
The countryside they
Elves are wondrous fair to look upon.
Swedes up in Dakota - know what they do sometimes? Put pepper on the floor. Gits up the ladies' skirts an' makes 'em purty lively - lively as a filly in season. Swedes do that sometimes." In
Men. They were fucking men. Hard-core, badass, live by their own set of rules ... men.
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
Since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
I guess the men of Iceland will have to get used to the idea that women are not for sale," ~ Gudrun Jonsdottir
People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.
Scottish men are . . . hardy?
All 'people of one blood' who made homeplace in isolated landscapes where they could invent themselves, where they could savor a taste of freedom.
Bad leather, Viking gods should be naked.
Sword and shield, flesh and bone, I am your man, Sigurd Haraldarson. As long as the sun shines and the world endures, henceforth and for evermore.
THOU ART NO THOR!
Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids.
A herd of old men with shriveled balls and spotted skin and young men with ridiculous hair.
The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods.
You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!
proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows.
Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.
It's not just dark in Scandinavia.
Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn't Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn't the world proved to be a bitter joke?
If it has ever been your fantasy to have a tall sexy Viking smothering you, let me tell you it's nowhere near as much fun as it initially sounds
Destriers began to perish of exhaustion and exposure. "What is a knight without a horse?" men riddled. "A snowman with a sword.
You cry because you are honest." / Nordic Fairies (Nordic Fairies, #1)
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.
Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.
Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?
Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.
Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.
Perry Johansson.
Ragnarok is coming.
I was without a lord. I was outcast. I was free. I was going Viking. There
What the fuck are cavemen doing here?
The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but "Swedish," "Norwegian," and "Danish" are all really one "language,
White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.
Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.