Cliches from the Icelandic
sagas circa 1200 AD: - Beggars always want to be choosers.
- Birds of a feather flock most together.
- When ill seed has been sown, so an ill crop will spring from it.
- Pride and wrong often end badly.
- The mother is best.
- Hard words break no bones.
- The longer vengeance is drawn out the better it will be.
- A rotten branch will be found in every tree.
- A bird in the hand was better than two in the bush.
- He with a short knife must try, try again.
Harvested from Viking Quotes which provides citations to referenced sagas: http://evagirly.tripod.com/wright/id29.html
