Monday, September 19, 2022

ON DEATH, PRAYERS AND HONOUR . . .


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Some quotes from the 1999 film The 13th Warrior . . .


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The Viking Prayer:

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.

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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.
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Buliwyf: I have only these hands. I will die a pauper.
King Hrothgar: You will be buried as a king.
Buliwyf: A man might be thought wealthy if someone were to... draw the story of his deeds. That they may be remembered.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Such a man might be thought wealthy indeed.

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Alternative version the Viking Prayer:




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