Ragnar Lothbrok Quotes

Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.

Don't waste your time looking back. You're not going that way.

Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge...but I would give far more.

How the little piggies will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered.

Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.

We fight. That is how we win, and that is how we die.

In my world, I am constantly torn between killing myself or everyone around me.

I would worry less about the gods and more about the fury of a patient man.

I don’t believe in the gods’ existence. Man is the master of his own fate, not the gods. The gods are man’s creation to give answers that they are too afraid to give themselves.

In 869 we have an event which rapidly achieved almost mythic status in English Christian folklore: the horrible martyrdom of King Edmund of East Anglia by the appalling Ivar the Boneless, who according to some traditions brought a great Viking army to England in pursuit of revenge for the killing of his father, the semi-legendary Ragnar Lothbrok, executed by the king of Northumbria.

19th century,

Rollo is considered to be the great-great-great-grandfather of William the Conqueror. Through William he is a progenitor of the modern day British Royal family, and in addition, a precursor of all present European rulers and a large number of claimants of dissolved European thrones. A genetic examination of the remaining parts of Rollo's grandson, Richard I, and great-grandson Richard II, has been done, with the aim of determining the beginnings of the renowned Viking warrior.

Researchers presume that climate change may have been disastrous for the Vikings' western settlements. Falling temperatures throughout the region – after 1200 A.D. – would have made navigation more difficult and shortened the growing seasons in the Artic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and so it was that by the 1500s Greenland was empty of any Norse settlers.

Ragnar Lothbrok, the famous Viking, is still a mysterious historical figure, hidden in myths and links to a few chieftains. He was the father of legendary figures such as Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Bjorn Ironside, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, and Ubba.

Kievan Tsar Vladimir consented to become a Christian ruler in 988 A.D. Based on a number of historical documents Vladimir had reviewed the various religious options, rejecting Islam because of its prohibition of liquor, while choosing Orthodox Christianity because of the grandeur of its churches and ceremonies.

I want her to be neither dressed nor undressed, neither fed nor unfed, and moreover she must not be all alone, but nevertheless no man may accompany her.

Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.

Of course we know fear, we just don't encourage it. Fear leads to servitude, obedience and slavery, which is a fate far worse than dying in battle. We don't worship one chief, it's one more, chosen momentarily, we discuss everything in assemblies, and our women are free.

Don't look back, you aren't going that way.

I cannot stop thinking about death. Death intrigues me. The death of children. The death of friends. But my own death continues to elude me. In my world, it is believed that the day of your death is fated. Would you like to know the day of your death?

Don’t waste your time looking back, you are not going that way.