37' Sword Excalibur king Arthur's Sword.
Engraved Brass round Pommel with engraved cross
guard,Behold....Excalibur!!! King Arthur's magical sword,
said to symbolise both destruction and fertility. Said to
hath been forged by a god, fortold by the wizard Merlin and
was the sword of kings, since the dawn of time! In one
version of the legends of Arthur, the future king proved
his right to rule by pulling Excalibur out of a stone,
which no other man could do. In another version, he
received the sword from the Lady of the Lake. As Arthur lay
dying he asked Sir Bedevere, one of his knights, to return
Excalibur to the lake, where an arm rose up out of the
water to receive it.
The Sword in the Stone, sometimes a sword in an anvil, is
drawn by Arthur as proof of his birthright and of his
nobility. It is both a test and a miraculous sign of his
royalty. The sword drawn from the stone is different from
the one given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake. The latter
is always referred to as Excalibur; the former is called by
that name only once, when Arthur draws the sword at a
crucial moment in the first battle to test his
sovereignty.... (Vinaver I, 19):
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