Quotes About Medieval

Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don't make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

It's a walking cart," Horace told him. "You get under it, so the spears won't hit you, and go for a walk.

Farmers don't nap," he said. "Knights nap." "That's where we get the expression 'a good knight's sleep,'" Will said, smiling at his own wit. Halt turned a baleful eye on him. "Horace is right. You're not funny.

Evanlyn was de bediende van mijn dochter. - Koning Duncan

He imagined many years must have passed since a jongleur had chosen to pinch that ample backside.

I said you were Sir Horace of the Order of the Oakleaf," Halt told him, then added uncertainly, "At least, I think that's what I told him. I may have said you were of the Order of the Oak Pancake.

Maybe they're napping," Horace suggested. Halt glanced sidelong at him. "Farmers don't nap," he said. "Knights nap." "That's where we get the expression 'a good knight's sleep,' " Will said, smiling at his own wit. Halt turned a baleful eye on him. "Horace is right. You're not funny. Come on.

De tol?' vroeg Arnaut. 'Ja, dat is een bijzondere vorm van struikroverij,' legde Halt uit.

Lady Pauline arched an eyebrow. "It didn't stop you throwing people into moats.

Dat prinsessengedoe is meer iets voor in kasteel Araluen. In mijn gewone leven ben ik een leerling-Jager, in mijn vierde jaar nu. - Maddie

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base — in both senses — greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

Here he employed himself in reading St. Augustine and the school men; but, in turning over the leaves of the library, he accidentally found a copy of the Latin Bible, which he had never seen before. This raised his curiosity to a high degree: he read it over very greedily, and was amazed to find what a small portion of the scriptures was rehearsed to the people.

O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,Alone and palely loitering?The sedge has withered from the lake,And no birds sing!

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Thor was probably the most important god of late paganism, as is suggested by the presentation in medieval Scandinavian sources of the conversion as a struggle between Thor and Christ.

This is medieval speculation on the origin of paganism, and it ascribes to pagans a kind of natural religion, one based on unenlightened observation of the environment.

Snorri sets Thor in that environment; that is, he tells us that there was a historical figure whom the Nordic peoples called Thor who lived before Christ was born and who performed historical acts (it is important to remember that berserks and dragons were not as fantastic to medieval historians as they seem to us) that look very much like some of the myths about Thor that later were to be told by the Nordic peoples.

Most historians accept that Sweden was fully Christian by the beginning of the twelfth century at the latest.

The Wars of the Roses weren't called that. Sir Walter Scott invented the name four centuries after the conflict.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

You've infested the whole ship with your medieval madness." Dust smiled. "Not mine. Conn's. The Captain's word is Law.

Is that why they're squabbling over her? They're trying to marry an heir to the throne? I'm sorry, Tristen, but that's like some medieval play.

Elizabeth Chadwick

Elizabeth Chadwick