Famous quotes containing the words battle of brunanburh, unknown, battle and/or brunanburh:
“Athelstan King,
Lord among Earls,
Bracelet-bestower and
Baron of Barons,”
—Unknown. Battle of Brunanburh (l. 1–4)
“[The pleasures of writing] correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader, or—which is the same thing—by the artist grateful to the unknown force in his mind that has suggested a combination of images and by the artistic reader whom his combination satisfies.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“Slew with the sword-edge”
—Unknown. Battle of Brunanburh (l. 9)