The Last Viking Quotes

“... history is a fog, a fog of uncertainty. The deeper one peers into it, the murkier and more uncertain the fog becomes. The instant an event has transpired and begins receding into the past it becomes vulnerable to memory and interpretation..”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen

“One of two things will happen,” said the father, “in every battle you fight, either you will die or you will live. Be valiant, then, since death is predetermined. No one may send a man to his grave if it is not his time, and if he is doomed to die, no one can save him. To die running is the worst death of all.”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada

“It is dangerous to quarrel with women, but more dangerous to make friends with them; you will be harmed by both. Kekaumenos”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada

“And Michael did not stop there, but set about totally transforming the imperial government. Senators and patricians who bowed to his will were rewarded. Those who did not were ostracized. His munificence extended even to releasing political prisoners, among them Harald’s old nemesis Maniakes, despite (or perhaps because of) his public shaming of the emperor’s late father, the admiral Stephen.”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada

“Men of consequence are not always heroic.”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the Norsemen

“Cathedral of St. Sophia still stands”
― Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada