Green Knight of the story turns him green. He tests Moses three times by doing seemingly evil acts, which are eventually revealed to be noble deeds to prevent greater evils or reveal great goods. Both the Arthurian Green Knight and Al-Khidr serve as teachers to holy and upright men (Gawain/Moses), who thrice tested their faith and obedience. It has been suggested that the character of the Green Knight may be a literary descendant of Al-Khidr, brought to Europe with the Crusaders and blended with Celtic and Arthurian imagery. The beheading game appears in a number of tales, the earliest being the Middle
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend is a 1974 Canadian animated short from Caroline Leaf, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Leaf worked with Inuit artists in the interpretation and design of this film which uses sand on a glass slide lit from below (sand animation) to tell this classic Inuit legend. Despite being from different species, an owl and goose marry. When the goose obeys nature and joins the other geese migrating south, the owl follows but