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cloaked_wolf
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Watching beowulf on five. Last time I saw it was on DVD. Anyway, it reminds me of another film that came on TV a few years back, also of a Scandinavian/Germanic background.
I remember something about swords. Not sure of much else. I think the hero may have been dipped in a river (as a child?) and made invulnerable but a leaf falls and covers part of his body and creates a vulnerability. Anyone recall whay it is?
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belchingmatt
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Sounds like the story of Achilles, Troy perhaps?
In which case the vulnerable area was caused by his mother's hand when he was dipped in the water rather than a leaf.
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Fogmeister
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Hence the term "Achille's heel" meaning a flaw or vulnerability in something.
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cloaked_wolf
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It wasn't Troy. Achilles was Greek, not Northern Europe/Scandinavian.
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cloaked_wolf
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Okay so the main guy was Seigfried or Sigurd. But that doesn't tell me the film name and I'm struggling.
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cloaked_wolf
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^^^Thanks for that. Whacked it into Amazon and it came out as "Sword of Xanten", which is exactly the title I remember!
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I have seen that, it starred Kristanna Loken who played the terminator in the third Terminator film. Also in the "Blood Rayne" films. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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