Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings _ fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
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Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings _ fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
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