Fear can be expelled with knowledge.
Whatever I discover about my enemies is written down.
Today is a day for warriors… a day to kill your enemies. A day we make the pagans wish they had never heard of Wessex. Today, we fight for Wessex!
I would rather be at the top of a hill than on the flat.
Courage without the sword is the more difficult path. It must, in time, become the only path.
Without my permission, you swore my men to a traitor. You led my armies into a battle I did not sanction. Your actions were not worthy of an aetheling. They were worthy of a king.[to Edward]
War is how a man takes his wealth, Earl Ragnar, it is the land and trade that makes it. And for the land and trade to flourish, there must be peace.
To Uhtred, the true Lord of Bebbanburg. A man I have never understood, but without whom I would not die a king.
To see is to be wise.
The heathen cares only for personal gain.
The crown of Wessex is all-important. Wessex and England are all-important. Matters of the heart are not.[to Edward]
The act of committing ink to parchment gives a deed permanence.
