overview for @RaceisRoyalty

“Brunnhilde: Forget not the race thou begot'st, from its root no coward can come.”
- Richard Wagner, Der ring des Nibelungen pic.x.com/ZhA1HbF499

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli pic.x.com/bwvhvw3lgq

(Detail) Battersea Shield - Celtic Origin,
Battersea - England,
3rd-2nd Century BC pic.x.com/szwanw0eup

“Achilles went round the huts and called all the Myrmidons to arms. They gathered like a pack of ravening wolves filled with indescribable fury, like mountain wolves that have brought down a stag, rending it with blood-stained jaws before going in to drink.”
- Homer, The Iliad pic.x.com/k6733oh25p

“Young men who make it their diversion, dance naked amidst drawn swords and presented spears. Practise has conferred skill at this exercise; and skill has given grace.”
- Tacitus, Germania pic.x.com/dl6i9srnop