He loved to make children laugh, to hear them gasp when he told them of Sir Gawain’s brush with death against the Green Knight, and melt their hearts when he told them of Sir Yvain’s friendship with the lion. Although, he never bothered to read deeply into the books-he preferred to make up his own twists and turns in the story instead. The Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table was Jack’s favourite fairy tale to tell the children in his village. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work,
“There he drew forth the brand Excalibur,Īnd o’er him, drawing it, the winter moon,īrightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth,Īnd sparkled keen with frost against the hilt:įor all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, ya know because of medieval taverns and all that.Hiccup's Dragon Riders (How to Train Your Dragon).
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III/Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood).
