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Henry Treece
9 quotes
“Perhaps those historians who say that the vikings sailed simply because the herring on which they fed had moved to other places are as near as anyone else in solving the problem. But what we do know without any doubt is that they did sail and, in sailing, created a great sea tradition which we British have inherited from them; for the blood of Aun and Harald and Thorkell runs in our veins too.”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our world, when we are used to big aircraft making their daily trips across the Atlantic, month in and month out, we perhaps forget those early pioneers who flew ten miles—and then no more. We admire those prairie schooners that passed over the wide spaces, from one side of America to the other; but do we ever give a thought to those wagons — small worlds of wood and canvas to their occupants, like our long ship — whose wheels and shafts lay, bleached like bones among the cactus in the cruel sunlight, after the Indians had fired them?”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is never sure, Harald. Whichever way a man turns, he thinks he might have done better to take the other path.”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The village on the fjord could do with a little gold, and some silks. It would not even object to a few pictures — provided, of course, that the artist had used real gold leaf in painting them!”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trust a horse before a hound, a hound before a lass — and a long ship before them all!”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A viking is born, my son, and never escapes his destiny. As some men love horses and others love hunting wolves, so a viking loves ships, every plank and rope of them, and he is never happy unless he is riding the track of the whale, treading the path of the gannet.”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These berserks live in a closed world of conflict and brotherhood. It will be long before Knud Ulfson’s ears will be open to the voices of men, for he is in the battle-trance yet, and I doubt whether he could see his hand before his face. That is the way of berserks.”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thunder threatens but may not strike; Rain threatens but may blow over; Wolf snarls but may not bite; When Harald snarls, your life is over.”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In England, in the south, there is a circle of great stones, about which men say the same thing. It was there before the Romans came, and it will be there when Odin decides to crumble the world in his two great hands. There are some such monuments which are meant to teach man that he is but a little thing, with a life hardly longer than that of a spring fly.”
Henry Treece (1911–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source