Titled Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow, the British theatrical version was released on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone, and ran during the 1963 Christmas season ( advertised in the January 1964 issue of Photoplay ).

Sometimes Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone ( the proof of Arthur's lineage ) are said to be the same weapon, but in most versions they are considered separate.

In popular fiction, the two are often made as the same, such as in the film Excalibur, as well as the Disney film adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.

The story of the Sword in the Stone has an analogue in some versions of the story of Sigurd ( the Norse proto-Siegfried ), whose father, Sigmund, draws the sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god Odin.

* The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester: Excalibur and The Sword In The Stone

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner-Loewe stage musical Camelot ( 1960 ) and the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the same name in 1967.

One of the best known of the film Merlins is the Merlin of the 1963 animated Disney film The Sword in the Stone, based on T. H. White's novel of the same name.

The sections from The Birth of Merlin to Arthur and the Sword in the Stone cover Robert de Boron's Merlin ).

Later still, T. H. White featured Robin and his band in The Sword in the Stone – anachronistically, since the novel's chief theme is the childhood of King Arthur.

Stone had referred Bogdanov to Cuchulain and the Beheading Game, a sequence which is contained in The Grenoside Sword dance.

In Ocarina of Time, by using the Mask of Truth, the player learns from a Gossip Stone that any adult that enters Lost Woods without the protection of a Guardian Fairy will become a monster ( although its only revealed that such monster is a Stalfos during the Biggoron Sword quest, when link trades in the Odd Potion for the Poacher's Saw ).

** Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur.

For example, Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition has had several lines of splatbooks: the " X & Y " series including Sword & Fist and Tome & Blood prior to the " 3. 5 " revision, the " Complete X " series including Complete Warrior and Complete Divine, and the " Races of X " series including Races of Stone and Races of the Wild.

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* The Sword in the Stone: Merlin, Mad Madam Mim, Wart ( King Aurthur ), Sir Ector, The Sculley Maid, Sir Pelinore, Little Girl Squrriel, Granny Squrriel, Archimedes, The Hawk, The Pike, The Hungry Wolf, and Sir Kay.

In the 1960s, Walt Disney's current animated films ( One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, the live-action / animated combo Mary Poppins, and The Jungle Book ) generated hefty revenue for the studio, as did the regular reissues of earlier animated films.

* T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone and Mistress Masham's Repose

Seasonal attractions include " Flight of the Eagles '" ( a bird show, featuring bald eagles, vultures, and sea eagles ), archery displays, Jousting ," The Trebuchet Show " and " The Sword In The Stone Show ".

The Sword in the Stone, although it includes some serious themes, is to some extent a rather whimsical fantasy of Merry England.

The Sword in the Stone, Hong Kong Disneyland

Walt Disney Productions made an animated movie adaptation of The Sword in the Stone, first released on December 25, 1963 by Buena Vista Distribution.

* T. H. White-The Sword in the Stone

Another variant was used by T. H. White in The Sword in the Stone, where Merlin and Madam Mim fought a wizards ' duel, in which the duelists would endlessly transform until one was in a form that could destroy the other.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

* In manga, Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King, Ryu possesses a wooden sword and uses it as his main weapon, and for that reason he is also known as Bokuto no Ryu ( Wooden Sword Ryu ).

* The villain Surt, in the Norse-inspired novel " The Sword and the Satchel " by Elizabeth Boyer, is a draugr.

Most famously, he is the subject of the Boy Carrying a Sword of 1861 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ).

This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.

, meaning " Way of The Sword ", is a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting based on traditional swordsmanship ( kenjutsu ) which originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan.

In the early 13th century, two German religious orders, the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, conquered much of the area that is now Estonia and Latvia, in addition to parts of Lithuania.

The woman languishing is Octavia Minor, abandoned by Mark Antony, between her brother Augustus ( left, as a god, as on the contemporary Sword of Tiberius ) and Venus Genetrix, the ancestor of Augustus and Octavia's Julian gens.

Sword production in China is attested from the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty.

The USMC Model 1859 NCO Sword is the longest continuously-issued edged weapon in the U. S. inventory

* Sword belt: A sword belt is a belt with an attachment for the sword's scabbard, used to carry it when not in use.

Sword typology is based on morphological criteria on one hand ( blade shape ( cross-section, taper, and length ), shape and size of the hilt and pommel )

In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds ; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre.

The Stasi motto was " Schild und Schwert der Partei " ( Shield and Sword of the Party ), that is the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ).

Ocarina of Time is " of the first contemporary non-dance title to feature music-making as part of its gameplay ", using music as a heuristic device and requiring the player to utilise songs to progress in the game — a game mechanic that is also present in Majora's Mask and, in different forms, The Wind Waker, Oracle of Ages, Spirit Tracks, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.

The producer of Skyward Sword has said that, as Link is entirely mute, having the other characters speak while Link remains silent would be off-putting.

Link is also right-handed in the title Skyward Sword.

There is also Sword Art Online ( ソードアート ・ オンライン, Sōdoāto Onrain ), a light novel series written by Reki Kawahara ; it is about 10, 000 people being trapped in a game world where in the game would mean an actual " death " in real life and the only way to escape is to complete the game.