Drama Notebook

Daily wisdom from epic TV shows & sagas

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"I am an ant. Toiling on the forest floor. I see only the leaf above my head. That leaf brings me some relief from the sun."

-- Floki

Vikings never pulled punches.

#Vikings #Floki #Humility

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The danger isn't always doing the wrong thing.

"Sometimes it's doing the right thing for the wrong reason."

#vikings

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"the greatest Christian virtue, Alfred, is humility."

-- King Ecbert

A man who betrayed everyone he loved, saying it with a straight face.

Masterclass in hypocrisy.

#Vikings

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King Ecbert’s rules for survival:

-- Ruthless wisdom

#Vikings #KingEcbert #Alfred #Mindset

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Good morning . . .

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The price of knowing:

"For in such wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow."

Ecclesiastes 1:18 - via Vikings

Ignorance isn’t bliss. But knowledge hurts.

#Vikings #Wisdom

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Ragnar knew what wealth really was:

#Vikings

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Floki to Rollo:

"I would say, let no man mock another over what touches many men. Time and again the wise are fettered by beauty."

Even Vikings knew: judge less. We all kneel to something.

#Vikings #Floki #Rollo

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3. Floki believed it. “That’s good advice.”

And honestly?

He’s not wrong.

#Vikings #Floki 4/4

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[Ubbe: “Do you have any advice, Floki?”

Floki: “Always take stones out of your shoe.”

A thread on the most Viking advice ever given 🧵 1/4

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2. It’s metaphor. Stop walking through life with pain you can fix in 5 seconds.

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The Seer warned us:

"Too much knowledge is an agony."

Some truths you can’t unlearn.

#Vikings #Philosophy

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Unpopular opinion:

Fairness is a myth invented by people who’ve never fought for anything.

As Halfdan told Bjorn: "What we deserve and what we get is never in balance."

The gods agree.

#Vikings

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"My Lord Abbot, all I know is that the world is not a simple place. There is good and evil in everything and in everyone. We are all, all of us, devils and angels."

Alfred understood what most won’t admit:

#Vikings #Alfred

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"A king cannot be like an ordinary person. Must not behave or have feelings like an ordinary person. A king must be prepared to do the most terrible things, if he wants to survive."

Queen Judith knew: power demands what morality cannot.

#Vikings

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Lagertha’s truth:

#Vikings #Lagertha #Shieldmaiden #Truth

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Strategy and planning are everything.

The mind is a far better warrior than the sword.

- Ivar the Boneless

#Vikings #Strategy #Mindset #IvarTheBoneless

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"How long have we on this earth, that we should deny ourselves what we most want and desire?"

Bjorn & Ingrid. Vikings S6.

#Vikings