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					   "Make way for the kings.  Chop, chop off the woman's 
					head."
 -- King of Hearts, directed by Philippe de Broca
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					"The Scando-Gothic peoples who poured 
		southward and westward over Europe, to shake empires and found kingdoms, to meet Greek and Roman in conflict, and levy 
		tribute everywhere, had kept up their constantly-recruited waves of 
		incursion, until they had raised a barrier of their own blood. It was 
		their own kin, the sons of earlier invaders, who stayed the landward 
		march of the Northmen in the time of 
		Charlemagne. To the Southlands their road by land was henceforth closed. 
		Then begins the day of the Vikings, who, for two hundred years and more, 
		"held the world at ransom."" --  
					The 
		Story of the Volsungs, by Anonymous
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