Gunther represents the best type of Kinghood of his age; a man swayed by his affections rather than by ambition, who scrupled at misdeeds, yet yielded to the mastering passions of love; one whose instincts were loyalty to friends and country, and who shrank from cruelties to gain his ends, but who fell a victim to woman's fascinations.
"The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson"
Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
In one generation the sons of Tancred passed from the condition of squires in the Norman vale of Cotentin, to Kinghood in the richest island of the southern sea.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
Your father was a man Of such colossal Kinghood, yet so courteous, Except when wroth, you scarce could meet his eye And hold your own; and were he wroth indeed, You held it less, or not at all.
"Queen Mary and Harold"
Alfred Lord Tennyson