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

We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves
into seeming knowledge, when we should submit
ourselves to an unknown fear.

William Shakespeare

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

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for my mother

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[Acknowledgments] What we write is partly chosen for us, partly of our own choosing; and however rapidly it may be committed to paper, a book may be a very long time in the making.

[Introduction] The dramatic entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 793 reads:
In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the people.

Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began.

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