"Image of a Viking thing (as it was called), the reunion of brethrens upon the call of it's Earl. The thing was a gathering of people in Viking-age, where the younger and brave warriors would offer their legion to the Earl, their chieftain, and where all the raiding (aka Vikingar, go Vikingr) was planned out to be set in motion."
"We were called Gentiles, and the people of the south feared us and called us evil. And of all the northerners, it was we Norwegians who went on to be the worst. But it was, true enough, something special about us. No king had ever managed to tame us, not even the Fair-haired did. The pope in Rome taught his monks that we could not be converted from paganism, for we were not humans at all, but wild animals. But wild animals could not cross open seas as we did, and no one had traveled farther than us. Fools are those who confuse free will and courage with inhumanity and evil! ”
— Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen, Jomsviking
