Rollo quotes from Vikings

Rollo

[Hugging Ragnar] How will we ever be equal now, my brother?

Rollo

How many Christians did I kill, Floki? How many? Do you think Odin is still angry with me now?

Rollo

I wanted to step out of your shadow... but when I stepped out of the doors, there was no sunlight.

Rollo

[to Ragnar and Floki who are arguing about why they fight for the Christians and risk losing their own people] Both of you, save your breath. We have a mountain to climb. Some of us will not see a dawn like this again... not here on Midgard, at any rate. So, let us try and speak well of each other... no matter how much we have been through together.

Rollo

[to Bjorn about Porinn who was gravely injured in battle] I do not think she will die. She wants to live. She has a lot to live for. But, if she hears you weeping and lamenting, she will choose to die. Be strong. Be a man. Coax her back from Valhalla. But, make it worth her while. For she is already at the gates.

Rollo

[Seated with his back at Ragnar's coffin] I have always resented you. It's true. I'm not denying it. I'm sorry you're dead, but it happens to all of us, sooner or later. It's just funny that the gods took you first. I always thought they favored you. You thought so, too. [a small laugh] It seems we were both mistaken.

Rollo

Up onto the overturned keel. Clamber, with a heart of steel. Cold is the ocean's spray... and your death is on its way. With maidens you have had your way...

[shouting] Each must die some day.

Rollo

It would have been better for me, for you, for everyone if I had been executed.

So you take not account of the gods? What is it that the gods have offered you?

Rollo

A lifetime of humiliation!

No that is not it. The goes have offered you a chance to be reborn, to be redeemed, to gain Valhalla. That is what they have offered you.

Floki

A creaking bow, a burning flame,

Rollo

Tide on the ebb, new ice, a coiled snake,

Floki

Sons of a king, an ailing calf, a witch's flattery.

Rollo

No man should be such a fool as to trust these things.

Floki

No man should trust the word of a woman. The hearts of women were turned on a whirling wheel.

Rollo

To love a fickle woman is like setting out over ice on a three year old colt or sailing a ship without a rudder.

Rollo

[Viciously rubbing the wrist bearing the bracelet signifying fealty to Ragnar] Ragnar was always chosen over me. By my father. And my mother. And by Lagertha. Why would I not want to betray him? Why would I not want to scream at him saying, I am alive, too! It doesn't matter what I do. Ragnar is my father. He is my mother. He is Lagertha. Siggy. He is everything I cannot do. Everything I cannot be. I love him. He is my brother. He has taken me back. But, I am so angry. Why am I still so angry? You tell me wise one! Or, I will tell you. It is because I am useless. Hollowed out by failed ambitions. By failed loves. Nothing good could ever come from my life now.

Rollo

What is there to laugh about?

The Seer

Oh, Rollo, if you truly knew what the gods have in store for you, you would go down now and dance naked on the beach.

Rollo

I don't understand.

The Seer

I tell you as I told Ragnar. The bear will marry a princess. And I can tell you that you will be present at the ceremony. Now go and leave me.