Herger the Joyous Quotes in The 13th Warrior (1999)

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.

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.

Herger the Joyous: Where did you learn our language?

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: I listened!

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: [given a Viking sword] I cannot lift this.

Herger the Joyous: Grow stronger.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: Have we anything resembling a plan?

Herger the Joyous: Mm-hm. Ride till we find them... and kill them all.

[Ibn has killed a 'beast']

Herger the Joyous: It's all right, little brother... there are more!

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?

[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.

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!

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.

[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!

Herger the Joyous: Let's go, little brother! It's beginning.

[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.

[after the first battle with the Wendol, Herger finds Ahmad, lying dazed on the floor]

Herger the Joyous: [laughing] Well, he didn't run!