- Narrator: When the Vikings set forth to rob and plunder England, they never sailed out of sight of land. They confined their attacks to swift, overnight raids. It was not an accident that the English Book of Prayer contained this sentence: "Protect us, oh Lord, from the wrath of the Northmen."
- Ragnar: Look how he glares at me. If he wasn't fathered by the black ram in the full of the moon my name is not Ragnar.
- Ragnar: What would you do with him in your country?
- Egbert: We have a special reward which is rather entertaining in a noisy way.
- Ragnar: What's that?
- Egbert: It's nothing much. Just a pit full of wolves half mad with starvation and trained to appreciate the flavor of human blood.
- Ragnar: [to Einar] Aw, you see, the English are civilized!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: The Vikings, in Europe of the 8th and 9th century, were dedicated to a pagan god of war, Odin. Trapped by the confines of their barren ice-bound northlands, they exploited their skill as shipbuilders to spread a reign of terror, then unequaled in violence and brutality in all the records of history.
- Narrator: The greatest wish of every Viking was to die, sword in hand, and enter Valhalla, where a hero's welcome awaited them from the god Odin.
- Eric: Our only chance is to get far away by morning.
- Morgana: Yes, I can see that.
- Eric: It would go a lot faster if we *all* rowed.
- Morgana: Would we?
- Eric: Yes, we would.
- Morgana: Do you mean that I should row this boat?
- Eric: Yes, I do mean that.
- Morgana: Impossible.
- Eric: Get an oar and row.
- Bridget: The Princess doesn't row a boat.
- Eric: Get an oar and row!
- Eric: If my soul is content to be heathen and your's content to be Christian, let's not question flesh for wanting to remain flesh.
- Kitala: The curse of Odin waits on him who kills the slave.
- Ragnar: Then no man shall kill him. Let the tide of the sea do it. Bind him! Cast him into the slop pool at low tide. Take him out.
- Kitala: You'll not kill him, but you throw him into the slop pool to be drowned and eaten by crabs!
- Ragnar: Then let the crabs be cursed by Odin! That's my decision.
- Einar: [about Eric] The sun will cross the sky a thousand times before he dies, and you'll wish a thousand times that you were dead.
- Einar: [to Ragnar on his return] I drink to your safe return in English ale. I wish that it were English blood.
- [Einar throws the cask of ale at Lord Egbert]
- Morgana: Do you know which of the oceans is the widest?
- Eric: The Poisoned Sea.
- Morgana: No. The ocean between a Christian and a heathen.
- Eric: [takes her hand] Our hands can reach across it as easily as that.
- Morgana: But, that's just a joining of the flesh.
- Eric: What else is missing?
- Morgana: The joining of our souls.
- Morgana: If you touch me, I'll kill myself.
- Einar: There's a sword to do it with; because, I'm going to touch you. Scratch. Come on. Bite!
- Morgana: I wouldn't care to fight a man.
- Einar: You wench! Kick! Bite! Scratch! Now, come on. Fight me.
- Morgana: I will not lift one finger to resist you. Whatever you do, will be on your conscience.
- Einar: Well, let it be on my conscience.
- Aella: if a common slave can rob me of a Queen, then slay an enemy too cunning for a whole nation to defeat, then the day must come when he will be a deadlier foe to England than Ragnar ever was. With or without God's sanction I tell you as your King this cannot be!
- Father Godwin: Your Majesty, I would ask you to bear in mind that I made good your promise in the name of Holy Mother Church!
- Aella: [to Eric after he allowed Ragnar to die with a sword in his hand] You dare to defy a King!... You shall join Ragnar in the pit!
- Eric: [Holds out his right arm showing he his hand was cut off] This was my thanks from Aiella for allowing Ragnar to die like a Viking!
- Enid: He has no right to the throne.
- Father Godwin: There is no direct heir, my lady.
- Enid: There is an heir.
- Father Godwin: What?
- Enid: Father Godwin, I am with child. But, not Edwin's. The child is that of the Viking, Ragnar.
- Einar: [referring to Morgana] Pretty bird. Pretty feathers. Build her a nest so she can hide. Too many hawks around here!
- Ragnar: Aw, a little skinny perhaps, but not bad. Not bad, at all.
- Egbert: Restrain yourself, my Lord. If she is dishonored, she'll be worthless as a Queen and Aella won't pay ransom for her.
- Morgana: I don't need traitors to plead my cause.
- Egbert: My quarrel's with Aella, Lady, not with you. We were all agreed you would be unharmed while you remain with us.
- Ragnar: Now, remember that Einar. Leave her alone.
- Einar: I haven't touched her. Yet.
- Morgana: And you never will! I'd kill myself first.
- Ragnar: Ah, she doesn't seem to like you.
- Einar: She likes me well enough.