Old Norse Sayings

#1. Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#3. I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

Sarah Moss

#4. Oh yes. I was telling you about my research into the old Norse sagas- the mythology of ancient Scandinavia. Have you read them?"
"Uh no."
"You'd like them, Cassie." He waved the hand with the chalk in it. "All sex and violence."
I frowned. "Why would you think that I'd-

Karen Chance

#5. Since moving to Valhalla, I'd learned an impressive number of Old Norse cusswords. Meinfretr translated as something like stinkfart, which was, naturally, the worse kind of fart

Rick Riordan

#6. The subliterary fiction she was churning out was many decades away from being in any way respectable. There was a small group that confessed to reading The Lord of the Rings, though you had to justify it through an interest in Old Norse.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).

F. Donald Logan

#8. The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

Katheryn Winnick

#9. The simplest melodies are the hardest to play

Gary Goldschneider

#10. Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

Aaron Tippin

#11. I'm either with you forever, or I'm not. I'm not into games or fucking around. I've had enough experience to know what to hold onto when I get it.

Rebecca Berto

#12. For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

David Antin

#13. That's right, bitch. Goldie Schwartz. And I'm not a fucking midget. I prefer the term 'fun sized'.

Jaye Wells

#14. As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Wayne Dyer