Quotes from Viking's Dawn — Henry Treece
1911–1966 England
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Life is never sure, Harald. Whichever way a man turns, he thinks he might have done better to take the other path.
Viking's Dawn (1955)
Trust a horse before a hound, a hound before a lass — and a long ship before them all!
Viking's Dawn (1955)
The village on the fjord could do with a little gold, and some silks. It would not even object to a few pictures — provided, of course, that the artist had used real gold leaf in painting them!
Viking's Dawn (1955)
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.
Viking's Dawn (1955)
Perhaps those historians who say that the vikings sailed simply because the herring on which they fed had moved to other places are as near as anyone else in solving the problem. But what we do know without any doubt is that they did sail and, in sailing, created a great sea tradition which we British have inherited from them; for the blood of Aun and Harald and Thorkell runs in our veins too.
Viking's Dawn (1955)