excalibur – Arthurian Legends

Lady of the Lake by NatasaIlincic

Excalibur (1981)

The Lady of the Lake spirit, waiting for the next heir to the Throne~

From Kent State’s 1933 yearbook (our restoration).

From sword fights to giant swords to sword swallowing, here’s my collection of vintage vintage sword imagery.

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eviepolkadot-draws:

Inktober 2018 Day Twenty Eight- Gift 🗡☀

lizstiel:

oh, my love, don’t forsake me
take what the water gave me

suviviini:

Okay this pose is straight from disney mulan

🙈 but it’s so cool i had to, also Alvin will free herself from her pond from cutting her hair (with a sword, duh).

thunderbirdpaints:

One more picture before bed! After almost a year I finally coloured it!

maliveth:

Updated an older piece to make it print-worthy! The newest lady looks like she belongs in the environment more-so than the 2017 version.

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The Sword in the Stone vs. Excalibur

professorerudite:

This is a question I frequently receive.

Monmouth Historia Regum Britanniae (1136): ‘Then girding on his Caliburn, which was an excellent sword made in the isle of Avalon, he graced his right hand with his lance, named Ron, which was hard, broad, and fit for slaughter.’
– Caliburn/Excalibur is from Avalon, not pulled from a stone.

Anonymous, ‘Culhwch and Olwen‘ (1100): In the Welsh tradition, Arthur’s sword is referred to as Caledvwlch.

Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485): In Le Morte Darthur, Arthur pulls an unnamed sword from the stone: ‘And saide it was grete shame vnto them all and the reame to be ouer gouernyd with a boye of no hyghe blood borne / And so they fell oute at that tyme that it was put of tyll Candelmas / And thenne alle the barons shold mete there ageyne / but alwey the x knyghtes were ordeyned to watche the swerd day & nyȝt / & so they sette a pauelione ouer the stone & þe swerd & fyue alwayes watched / Soo at Candalmasse many moo grete lordes came thyder for to haue wonne the swerde / but there myghte none preuaille / And right as Arthur dyd at Cristmasse / he dyd at Candelmasse and pulled oute the swerde easely wherof the Barons were sore agreued and put it of in delay till the hyghe feste of Eester / And as Arthur sped afore / so dyd he at Eester / yet there were some of the grete lordes had indignacion that Arthur shold be kynge / and put it of in a delay tyll the feest of Pentecoste / Thenne the Archebisshop of Caunterbury by Merlyns prouydence lete purueye thenne of the best knyghtes that they myghte gete’

In Book Two, The Lady of the Lake gives Arthur Excalibur: ‘The meane whyle that this knyght was makyng hym redy to departe / there came in to the Court a lady that hyght the lady of the lake / And she came on horsback rychely bysene / and salewed kynge Arthur / and there asked hym a yefte that he promysed her whan she gaf hym the swerd / that is sothe said Arthur / a gyfte I promysed yow / but I haue forgoten the name of my swerd that ye gaue me / The name of it said the lady is Excalibur that is as moche say as cut stele’