The Vikings Quotes

“I don't mean to mock the gods,
but Freyja seems to me a bitch.
- Hjalti Skjeggjason”
― Robert Ferguson, The Vikings: a History

“its parameters are fluid, but based on the unmoving fact that, at the start of the period, roughly speaking all the Scandinavian peoples were Heathens; and by the time it ends, roughly speaking all the Scandinavian peoples thought of themselves as Christian.”
― Robert Ferguson, The Vikings: A History

“The Irish would close theirs with the Battle of Clontarf in 1016.”
― Robert Ferguson, The Vikings: A History

“With the exhibits sorted into these three basic groupings of stone, bronze and iron, an exhibition opened to the public in the Trinitatis Church loft in 1819. This was the first time the tripartite division of the past into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages was used.”
― Robert Ferguson, The Vikings: A History