God created everything that surrounds me, the fields, rivers, the forests. The land is my church.
What binds a man to his land? What power within allows him to give his life to preserve his land and the lives of the families who work it? It can only be love.
We are one, you and I. From the moment I took your hand on the steps of the great hall of Eoferwic, we were bound as one. You may dislike me, hate me if you wish, despise me at times. But love is immortal. It goes on.[to Brida]
There’s no justice here. Only the church.
I will not stand by and have everything that’s mine taken from me.
Call me Uhtred. Or, from time to time, you may wish to call me Arseling.
Wessex allows its warriors to kill each other and spends too much time on its knees.
The truth of a man lies not in the land of his birth, but in his heart.
That’s the curse of life, to think of what might have been.
Land and silver is what all men desire and I’m no different.
Every lord is the hero of his own songs.
We carry our losses, but we journey onward.
