The 13th Warrior (1999)
Dennis Storhøi: Herger - Joyous
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Quotes
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Buliwyf : Lo, there do I see my father. 'Lo, there do I see...
Herger the Joyous : My mother, and my sisters, and my brothers.
Buliwyf : Lo, there do I see...
Herger the Joyous : The line of my people...
Edgtho the Silent : Back to the beginning.
Weath the Musician : Lo, they do call to me.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : They bid me take my place among them.
Buliwyf : In the halls of Valhalla...
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : Where the brave...
Herger the Joyous : May live...
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : ...Forever.
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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : How can you sleep at a time like this?
Herger the Joyous : The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing.
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Herger the Joyous : When they come, we form a circle in the center of the room, backs to one another.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : I am not a warrior.
Herger the Joyous : Very soon, you will be.
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Herger the Joyous : Where did you learn our language?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : I listened!
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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : [given a Viking sword] I cannot lift this.
Herger the Joyous : Grow stronger.
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[Herger kills one of the Prince's henchmen in a sham duel]
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : You, you could have killed him at will.
Herger the Joyous : Yes?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : Well, why the deception?
Herger the Joyous : Deception is the point! Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it since we arrived. Now he has to calculate what he can't see.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : And fear... what he doesn't know.
Buliwyf : As you say, foolish. And expensive. We will miss Angus tonight, we will miss his sword.
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[Ibn has killed a 'beast']
Herger the Joyous : It's all right, little brother... there are more!
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Herger the Joyous : We shall pray for your safe return!
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : Pray to whom?
Herger the Joyous : In your land one God may be enough, but here we have need of many. I will pray to all of them for you. Do not be offended!
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : I'll be in your debt!
[they wave goodbye]
Herger the Joyous : Goodbye, Arab!
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : Goodbye, Northman.
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Angus : Watch where you throw that... you dig like a dog.
Herger the Joyous : Did you call me a dog?
Angus : I said you dig like one. Flinging earth carelessly like an animal.
Herger the Joyous : So, now I'm an animal?
Angus : You're not listening.
Herger the Joyous : I'm deaf?
Angus : You're a fool, little man.
Herger the Joyous : That is because, boy, your words are feeble and twisted as an old woman!
Angus : This old woman'll send you to the next world, old man.
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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : They think they are bears... they want us to think they are bears... Hey, how do you hunt a bear?
Weath the Musician : Chase it down with dogs. What...?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : How do you hunt a bear in winter?
Herger the Joyous : Go in its cave with spears.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : Where is a cave?
Weath the Musician : [realizing] It's in the earth.
Edgtho the Silent : [Returns from scouting] The next glen, many fires.
Buliwyf : IS THERE A CAVE?
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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : [as Herger offers a mead horn] I can taste neither the fermentation of grape, nor of wheat.
[Herger laughs]
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : What? Why do you laugh?
Herger the Joyous : [laughing and handing over the bottle] HONEY! It's made from honey!
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Melchisidek : He wants to know your name.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad.
Herger the Joyous : Eben?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : No, listen, My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. "Ibn" means "son of".
[to the others]
Herger the Joyous : Eben.
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[after the battle is over, Ahmed sleeps with Olga]
Herger the Joyous : Did she finish you off or bring you back to life?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : A gentleman doesn't discuss such things.
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Herger the Joyous : Let's go, little brother! It's beginning.
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Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : Have we anything resembling a plan?
Herger the Joyous : Mm-hm. Ride till we find them... and kill them all.
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[Herger prepares for his duel with Angus]
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : What happened?
Herger the Joyous : An engineering dispute.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : You notice he's bigger than you?
Herger the Joyous : Yes.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : And younger.
Herger the Joyous : Yes.
[He bangs his shield and moves into the ring]
Herger the Joyous : Bet on him, if you like.
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : I may!
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[Ahmed rushes out of the butchered farmhouse and vomits]
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan : They have been... gnawed upon.
Herger the Joyous : It is said, they eat the dead.
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[after the first battle with the Wendol, Herger finds Ahmad, lying dazed on the floor]
Herger the Joyous : [laughing] Well, he didn't run!
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Herger the Joyous : The Allfather wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing.