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King
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Excalibur
Drawn from the Stone or received from the Lady of
the Lake.
Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur has both versions
with both swords called Excalibur. Other versions
have two different swords.
Excalibur or Caliburn (Caledfwlch in Welsh and
mentioned in the Mabinogion) is the legendary sword
of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the
rightful sovereignty of Britain.
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. One Theory postulates that the name Excalibur was
originally derived from the Latin phrase Ex calce liberatus, "liberated from the stone.” The sword was
associated with the Arthurian legend very early.
There are two
originally separate legends about the sword's origin. The first is the
"Sword in the Stone" legend, originally appearing in Robert de
Boron's poem Merlin, in which Excalibur can only be drawn from the stone by
Arthur, the rightful king.
The second
comes from the later Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin,
which was taken up by Sir Thomas Malory. Here, Arthur
receives Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake after breaking his first sword in
a fight with King Pellinore. The Lady of the Lake
calls the sword "Excalibur, that is as to say as Cut-steel," and
Arthur takes it from a hand rising out of the lake.
As Arthur lies
dying, he tells Sir Bedivere (Sir Griflet
in some versions) to return his sword to the lake by throwing it into the
water. Bedivere is reluctant to throw away such a
precious sword, so twice he only pretends to do so. Each time, Arthur asks him
to describe what he saw. When Bedivere tells him the
sword simply fell into the water, Arthur scolds him harshly. Finally, Bedivere throws Excalibur into the lake. Before the sword
strikes the water's surface, a hand reaches up to grasp it and pulls it under.
Arthur leaves on a death barge with the three queens to Avalon, where as his
legend says, he will one day return to lead in
Malory records both versions of the legend in his Le Morte d'Arthur, and confusingly
calls both swords Excalibur.
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