Ragnar Lothbrok quotes from Vikings

Ragnar

Odin gave his eye to acquire knowledge, but I would give far more.

Ragnar

My lord, it was easy to take all of these things. The priests in their temple, they had no weapons. They were like babies.

Ragnar

Don't be too impatient to put yourself in danger.

Ragnar

Our fates are already decided.

Ragnar

Every piece of land has a price, just like every human.

Ragnar

[explaining why he slept with Princess Aslaug] I could not help myself.

Ragnar

Gyda, I have come to say goodbye to you properly. I have been thinking about you, about when you were small. You were so lively, you could run as swiftly as the wind. You were like quick-silver. But then, before I knew it, you stopped running here and there and everywhere and you became still. At 12-years-old, you had the stillness and the calm of a fine woman. What children you would have produced! What joy that would have brought to all of us. Dear child, Gyda, you are not gone because you are always in my heart. They say that a man must love his sons more, but a man can be jealous of his sons, and his daughter can always be the light in his life. I know very well that you are with the gods, but I will wait here awhile, and if you want to come and talk to me, then come and talk, and I will gently stroke your long and beautiful hair once again with my peasant hands.

Ragnar

We should not wash our dirty clothes in front of others.

Ragnar

[On his son's eye defect] It is not a curse. It is blessing.

Ragnar

[at Athelstan's grave] What am I to do now? I hate you for leaving me. I ache from your loss. There is nothing that can console me now. I am changed, so are you.

Ragnar

[while mourning his friend] Forgive me, my friend, not for what I have done. But for what I am about to do.

Ragnar

I always believed that death is a fate far better than life.

Ragnar

[Praying to Athelstan] You think I went too far with Floki. Can you actually believe that he thought that I would let him lead without having an agenda? If I was him, I would worry less about the gods and more about the fury of a patient man.

Lagertha

Don't sleep with lots of women in Kattegat.

Ragnar

I can do without it for a few days.

Lagertha

Is that another way of saying you love me?

Floki

[to Bjorn] You have your father's eyes unfortunately.

Ragnar

Why unfortunately?

Floki

It means he will be like you, and therefore he will want to do better than you, and you will hate him for it.