Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought; all we ought to have said, and have not said; all we ought to have done, and have not done; I pray thee God for forgiveness.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
Lo there do I see my father. Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers. Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the Halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live...forever.
Norse Prayer for Battle and Burial Rites
Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought; all we ought to have said, and have not said; all we ought to have done, and have not done; I pray thee God for forgiveness.
Ahmed Ibn Fadhlan
The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing.
Herger the Joyous
Blow-hards the both of you. She probably was some smoke-colored camp girl. Looked like that one's mother.
Skeld the Superstitious
My mother ... was a pure woman from a noble family. And I, at least, know who my father is, you pig-eating son of a whore!
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
"Draw sounds"? Yes, I can draw sounds... and I can speak them back.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
No, no. Don't put that filth on me. Water, clean water.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
As you wish. Tomorrow the pus will run, and you'll have a fever.
Olga
Deception is the point! Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it since we arrived. Now he has to calculate what he can't see.
Herger the Joyous
As you say, foolish. And expensive. We will miss Angus tonight; we will miss his sword.
Buliwyf
I cannot...taste neither the fermentation of grape nor of wheat.(Herger laughs) What? Why do you laugh?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan
The way we'll know is: if they don't follow us it's too far to swim!
Herger the Joyous
A man might be thought wealthy if someone were to...draw the story of his deeds, that they may be remembered.
Buliwyf
Such a man might be thought wealthy indeed.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan