Vinland Saga Quotes

being empty means anything can fit inside you. if you want to be reborn, empty's the best way to be.

Listen to me, Thorfinn. You have no enemies. No one has any enemies. There is no one that you should hurt.

No one is your enemy. You have no enemies at all.

I want to be kinder, gentler person. I want to be a stronger person.

they had no way of reckoning longitude.

The discussion of a voyage to Vinland continued as before, and people strongly urged Karlsefni to make the journey,

It happened one morning that Karlsefni and his men noticed up above the clearing a kind of speck as it were glittering back at them, and they shouted at it. It moved -- it was a uniped -- and hopped down to the river-bank off which they were lying. Thorvald Eirik the Red's son was sitting by the rudder, and the uniped shot an arrow into his guts. He drew out the arrow. "There is fat round my belly!" he said. "We have won a fine and fruitful country, but will hardly be allowed to enjoy it." Thorvald died of this wound a little later. The uniped skipped away and back north, and Karlsefni and his men gave chase, catching sight of him every now and again. The last glimpse they had of him, he was leaping for some creek or other.

It’s usually true, as they say, that you can’t know a good question until you have the answer,

Then my sentence remains death and I will take it.’ Freydis said. ‘As a skjoldmoy, with a battle-axe in my hand. But I will make Valhalla a place on earth before it happens. I will make Vinland the gates to all of the Nordic Empire and they will be open for all eternity to those persecuted by these one-God heathens, wherever they may be.

Carve it. Carve it into your flesh. Carve it into the land. Carve it into the sea. Carve it into your spoils. Carve it into your enemies. Carve it. Carve it. Carve what you feel into me. Carve that encounter into me.