[Hellsgate] An URGENT LETTER!!

[John Atkinson]

Vikings?  Where?  I wonder if they are for sale, ummm. . . I mean,
willing to serve the Basileus in exchange for honors, rich garb, fine
weapons and armor, and good gold coin. . .

If not, the Navy will just have to set their boats on fire.

Ioannes Dalassenos
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani