Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Excalibur" ¶ 21
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Excalibur and is
In this story, Romulus Augustus marries Igraine, and King Arthur is their son, and the sword of Julius Caesar becomes the legendary Excalibur in Britain.
Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.
Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain.
It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.
This sword is thought by many to be the famous Excalibur, and its identity is made explicit in the later so-called Vulgate Merlin Continuation, part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle.
However, in what is sometimes called the Post-Vulgate Merlin, Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake sometime after he began to reign.
She calls the sword " Excalibur, that is as to say as Cut-steel.
In several early French works such as Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.
This is in contrast to later versions, where Excalibur belongs solely to the king.
John Boorman, in his film Excalibur, attempted to restore a more traditional heroic representation of an Arthurian tale, in which the Grail is revealed as a mystical means to revitalise Arthur and the barren land to which his depressive sickness is connected.
New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of Iceman, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternate reality in which Professor X was possessed by the Shadow King.
The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).
* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).
Pomparles Bridge stood at the western end of this lake, guarding Glastonbury from the south, and it is suggested that it was here that Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the waters after King Arthur fell at the Battle of Camlann.
It has an infamous " hunger " to slaughter and is the " brother sword " of the legendary Excalibur.
Later in the series it was mentioned that the Singing Sword is a sister to King Arthur's Excalibur.

Excalibur and by
DARPA also appears in three novels by Andy McDermott, The Search for Excalibur, The Covenant of Genesis and The Empire of Gold.
Excalibur the Sword, by Howard Pyle ( 1902 )
The Lady of the Lake offering Arthur Excalibur, by Alfred Kappes ( 1880 )
The Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.
The character, played by Nicol Williamson, has a large role in the 1981 film Excalibur.
" The first of these was The New Mutants, soon followed by Alpha Flight, X-Factor, Excalibur, and a solo Wolverine title.
** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.
Some of the more ambitious modifications created by fans include Marathon Eternal and Marathon Rubicon, both of which take place after the events of the trilogy, and Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, a scenario for Marathon, Marathon Infinity, and Aleph One.
Square trademarked Seiken Densetsu in, intending to use it for a game project subtitled The Emergence of Excalibur, and led by Kazuhiko Aoki for the Famicom Disk System.
He fought the Huns with his powerful Singing Sword, Flamberge, a magical blade created by the same enchanter who forged Arthur's Excalibur.
At the end of World War II, the 188-bungalow Excalibur Estate was laid out in Catford, and by 2011 this was the largest surviving prefab estate in Britain.
There were two releases, both sanctioned by Atari and Bridgestone Multimedia ( who had obtained the rights to the Starpath library some time ago ): the first release ( a limited number not-for-profit release ) also included the previously unreleased Atari prototype, Polo by Carol Shaw, and the second release included the Supercharger prototypes Meteroid ( an early version of Suicide Mission ) and Excalibur ( an early version of Dragonstomper ), as well as a number of homebrew games by permission of their respective authors, and the song Atari 2600 by Splitsville, fully licensed from the band.
* Sega's Sonic Team transforms King Arthur into " The Black Knight " as a result of corruption from his immortality inducing scabbard of Excalibur given by the Lady of the Lake in the Arthurian influenced Sonic and the Black Knight.
After the Battle of Camlann, she reclaims Excalibur when it is thrown into the lake by Sir Bedivere.
She has since returned as the Queen of Blood, to raise an army against man, but is opposed by Hellboy who possesses the sword Excalibur ( And thus is technically king of England ).
In 1993, Manning was again confronted by an example of intolerance by a Reform Party candidate, Toronto-area candidate John Beck, who made a series of anti-immigrant remarks in an interview with Excalibur, the York University student paper.

Excalibur and no
Aside from the name and the writer ( Claremont ), it has no connection to Marvel's previous Excalibur titles.
She received no formal education ; she is completely self-taught about contemporary culture through television viewing, although her allies from Excalibur take the time to bring her ' up to speed '.
no: Excalibur ( bilmerke )
During his tenure on Excalibur, Warren Ellis left no uncertainty about Lockheed's intelligence: he is capable of conversant speech ( although for some reason he speaks in a Cockney accent, despite spending most of his life in America and Scotland ), however, the only member of Excalibur who ever hears him is Kitty's boyfriend Peter Wisdom, whom Lockheed dislikes.
no: Excalibur
The Scarlet Witch's storyline continued in the pages of Excalibur, where Magneto and Professor X tried helping her, to no avail.

Excalibur and means
Through magic and mortal means, she tries to arrange Arthur's downfall, most famously when she arranges for her lover Accolon to obtain the sword Excalibur and use it against Arthur in single combat.

Excalibur and only
In the midst of the Arthurian section of the text, Wace was the first to mention the legend of King Arthur's Round Table and the first to ascribe the name Excalibur to Arthur's sword, although on the whole he adds only minor details to Geoffrey's text.
New Excalibur, now with only four members, disbands after the final battle with Merlyn.
While Sat-Yr-9's whereabouts remain unknown, Viper returned to Madripoor to oversee HYDRA operations and Sage became a member of the short-lived New Excalibur, only to end up as one of the Exiles.
The only way to heal his trouble is for " Arthur " to return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake, a role Delenn willingly accepts.
They also assaulted and destroyed the shipyards that produced the Victory class destroyers as they withdrew from battle ; this meant that Excalibur would be the only surviving ship of that class for many years until the shipyards are rebuilt.
Initially, his only vocalizations included mostly animal-like sounds like cooing or roars, but hints were dropped as early as Uncanny X-Men # 168 that he was capable of more articulate words like “ oops ” and was shown as capable of speaking some words of English years later in Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men # 4 ( June 1987 ) and Excalibur volume 1, # 64 ( April 1993 ).
Even after Clark's defeat, these rogue operations continue to experiment with the technology to create even more powerful ships, one of which was responsible for the destruction of the Cerberus, a ship of which Matthew Gideon ( then an ensign, later captain of the Excalibur ) was the only survivor.
As of 2262 Galen is one of only two known mages ( the other being Alwyn ) to not be in the hiding place, choosing when it suits him to help John Sheridan, Matthew Gideon and the Excalibur crew in their quest to find a cure to the Drakh virus.
The film is about a sprited teenage girl named Kayley who wants to be a knight of the Round Table in Camelot like her father Sir Lionel, a blind young man named Garrett who wishes only to be left alone, and their quest to find Excalibur.
Today it not only retails its own brands like Flying Machine, Newport and Excalibur but also licensed international brands like Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Tommy Hilfiger, through its nationwide retail network.
* The Excalibur — monthly school newspaper, inducted into the National Scholastic Press Association's Hall of Fame in the fall of 2004, making it the only student publication in the state to be inducted.
The quests for the Grail, Excalibur, and Lancelot's armor can only be completed once, whereas the wars and the Black Knight tournament repeat.
The only other game published in this line was Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, also written by Bates.
Though Lloyd had not appeared on television following the end of Glacier, he, along with Gene Okerlund, Alex Wright, and other WCW personalities, attended the public grand opening of the Nitro Grill at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on May 22, 1999 ; the restaurant lasted only sixteen months and closed in September 2000.
The Drakh suddenly receive a powerful encoded message and begin to flee ; the Excalibur and Victory pursue them only to find the entire Drakh fleet departing for Earth.
Her efforts were foiled by Excalibur and Margali disappeared only to be captured by Belasco.

0.365 seconds.