The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old-fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. ... There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides ... Then there were pennons floating from the tops of the tents, and sheaves of spears leaning against them. The more sporting barons had shields or huge copper basins outside their front doors, and all you had to do was to give a thump on one of these with the butt-end of your spear, for the baron to come out like an angry bee and have a fight with you, almost before the resounding boom had died away. Sir Dinadain, who was a cheerful man, had hung a chamber-pot outside his.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: humour chivalry arthurian-legend knights
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan StojanovicStichwörter: poetry philosophy eternity literature poets fame quotes deeds knighthood knights poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
We need knew knights, but without swords.
Dejan StojanovicStichwörter: wisdom books poetry philosophy literature poets quotes swords knights poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
To the knights of faith nobody believes.
Dejan StojanovicStichwörter: wisdom poetry faith literature quotes thoughts nobody knights poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by beleif literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic circling
War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle.
For some, that one taste is enough to break them. Others go on for years, until they lose count of all the battles they have fought in, but even a man who has survived a hundred fights can break in his hundred-and-first. Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they’ve been gutted by an axe.
They see the lord who led them there cut down, and some other lord shouts that they are his now, They take the wound, and when that’s still half-healed they take another. There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shitting in their breeches from drinking bad water.
If they want new boots or a warmer cloak or maybe a rusted iron half helm, they need to take them from a corpse, and before long they are stealing from the living too, from the small folk whose land they’re fighting in, men very like the men they used to be. They slaughter their sheep and steal their chickens, and from there it’s just a short step to carrying off their daughters too. And one day they look around and realize all their friends and kin are gone, that they are fighting beside strangers beneath a banner that they hardly recognize. They don’t know where they are or how to get back home and the lord they’re fighting for does not know their names, yet here he comes, shouting for them to form up, to make a line with their spears and scythes and sharpened hoes, to stand their ground. And the knights come down on them, faceless men clad in all steel, and the iron thunder of their charge seems to fill the world.
And the man breaks.
Stichwörter: war famine knights knight
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Richard BrautiganMost have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
George R.R. MartinStichwörter: stories memory heroes legend folklore villains knights jaime-lannister loras-tyrell
Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.
Desmond SewardStichwörter: history war crusade german knights monk
Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.
Chuck BlackStichwörter: christianity adventure allegory christians knights
She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint.
Rupert Sargent HollandStichwörter: love medieval knights lancelot
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