Castle Shima

Merlin: It's not for you, Uther. Hearth and home, wife and child.
Uther: To kill and be King. Is that all?
Merlin: Perhaps not even that.
-- from Excalibur

Ever since seeing Excalibur, its been one of my favorite movies and an influence on my imagination. The Arthur legend was always in my memory, but the movie pulled it all together. That and the song O Fortuna has lasted generations long before the film was created.

O Fortuna,
velut luna statu variabilis,
semper crescis aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis nunc obdurat
et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

Yes, I do know what the translation is. The Latin seems more fitting.