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Thruðheim Kindred Quotes Page
- The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland
- "Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long
ago." - Anonymous lines from 'For Scirnis'
- "I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than
any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of
Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still
worshippers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men
whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many
ways." - Thomas Carlyle
- The Poetic Edda translated by Lee M. Hollander
- Teutonic Religion by Kveldulf Gundarsson
- "The words we speak and the visions that fill our souls all spring from the roots
of a great tree, in the depths of a well which holds all that shapes us still." - Kveldulf Gundarsson
- Other Sources
- "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward
to their ancestors." - Edmund Burke
- "There is only one journey: going inside yourself." - Rainer Maria
Rilke
- "Against stupidity, even the gods are powerless." - Friedrich von
Schiller
- "Christianity has emptied Valhalla, felled our sacred groves, extirpated our national image as a shameful superstition, as a devilish poison, and given us instead the imagery of a nation whose climate, laws, culture
and interests are strange to us, and whose history has no connection with our own. A David or a Solomon lives in our popular imagination, but our own country's heroes slumber in learned history books." - George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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