Four of the best book quotes from Harald Sigurdson
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“Such a king as he does not deserve a funeral fire like that. A king who has no ship to take him to Odin is not worth following. Better a man should go a-viking for himself.”
″‘Come you, shipmaster, and let us drink together, for you seem a sharp fellow.’
Bjorn said, ‘Not I, Thorkell, but my apprentice.’
‘Bring him, too,’ said Thorkell. ‘A lad who has thoughts about oarholes like that should make a viking one day.‘”
“A viking is born, my son, and never escapes his destiny. As some men love horses and others love hunting wolves, so a viking loves ships, every plank and rope of them, and he is never happy unless he is riding the track of the whale, treading the path of the gannet.”