![]() ![]() According to Robert, the event occurs in the churchyard of “the greatest church in London.” ![]() The oldest surviving version of the sword and stone story was written by the Burgundian poet Robert de Boron, around the year 1200, who claimed to have taken the theme from a much earlier Dark Age account. However, in the Arthurian romances composed during the Middle Ages, the episode takes place right in the heart of London. The usual setting for the event portrayed by Hollywood is somewhere in the countryside or in a dark forest. ![]() And the sword in question is not Excalibur, as commonly believed, but a completely different weapon. To start with, in the original story the sword is stuck in an anvil that rests on a stone-not in the stone itself. The theme of King Arthur pulling the sword from a stone in order to prove himself worthy to rule is perhaps the most muddled of all the Arthurian legends.Īrthur Draws the Sword from the Stone, by the nineteenth-century English artist Walter Crane. It will be interesting to see just how the sword is depicted, considering that previous Arthurian epics have been far from true to the original tales. Staring Charlie Hunnam as the fabled warrior, the film title suggests that the central theme is Arthur’s legendary sword. This spring a new movie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, is to hit the big screens. ![]()
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