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there are always cattle raids, and we always retaliated by striking into the Scottish valleys to bring back livestock. We stole just as many as they stole, and it would have been much simpler to have had no raids,
Reputation is sometimes enough to end a confrontation,
It was not really my place to command this assembly, but if they started arguing over past mistakes we would never agree on the future.
The great Lord Uhtred! I felt a vast weight on my heart when I heard those words. Reputation! We seek it, we prize it, and then it turns on us like a cornered wolf.
