the arthurian legend

[nio kasgami]

Hi peoples 

so I encounter a question....and I can't found it really well on internet so I wanted to ask to the people here

I do know some of the rm is inspirate of the arthurian legend with Excalibur

but if my memory was good they don't had more sword than excalibur? 

I do remember Caliburn who was the Twin Sister sword but I don't usually remember much about it....

but I can't remember or find if in the arthurian legend they had more than two "legendary" sword...

I would love people to help me on that part because I can't find it lol 

thanks for any answer c: 

 

[imascribble]

Check out this site - it's pretty fascinating and should give you what you're looking for

http://www.timelessmyths.com/arthurian/objects.html

 

[nio kasgami]

WOW lol thanks! I never though they had so many weapons actually or object related to Arthur! but I do love some names of them and their legends but I do think some of them repeat the sames and it's mostly maybe just the same excalibur c: !

 

[Haydeos]

Shout-out to 'Ron'! XD

"BEHOLD MY MIGHTY LANCE...RON!"

 

[The Stranger]

Caliburn was the name of Excalibur, it wasn't another sword. The link imascribble provided is pretty awesome.

I love Arthurian Legend. I enjoyed the story of the Fisher King, his wounding by a mystical weapon, him becoming the Maimed King, and his kingdom becoming the Wasteland.

 

[nio kasgami]

actually I studied the subject too with other wikis ect 

and this a (war) for know the truth version of it because certain say Caliburn (the sword of the stone) and excalibur was two different sword 

when Caliburn was from the stone Excalibur got given by the Lady of the lake it's depends of the versions actually 

 

[The Stranger]

Which war are you talking about? There were many battles and conflicts throughout the Arthurian legend. Caliburn is not a different sword. It's just another name for Excalibur. This can be found in most books focusing on being a guide to Arthurian legend, as well as that link Iamscribble provided, and even wikipedia; which I don't usually trust for information. It's just a different name provided by different writers, but both are applied to Arthur's main sword.

The sword in the stone was never named; though, in some versions it's called the Sword of Peace and used for knighting, whilst in others, it's Excalibur itself. Excalibur was gifted to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake in later versions of the Arthurian legend. Earlier works, namely by Geoffrey of Monmouth, named the sword Caliburn (a Latinised version of the Welsh "Caledfwlch") and had it be a gift from Avalon and was not given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake.

There's nothing stopping you from claiming they're different swords in your own work, but they're not different swords in Arthurian legend.

 

[LaFlibuste]

I think you have to understand where this story comes from. It's not like modern stories where an author creates it, writes it down and even if there are adaptations, there is a true, original version. The Arthurian legend is just that, a legend. It's a folk tale of the celts, it's been told and retold for centuries by people spanning multiple land masses and speaking different languages without ever being written down. Was there ever an original version? It's likely. It is quite possibly based on actual historical facts. But all of it was lost to time and the origin was probably much more mundane than the versions we know of today. So I think it is fair to assume there it not one definite answer...

 

[nio kasgami]

@stranger : it's from my focklore of childhood and I just deeped my research with wiki and some other site 

and yeah I admit the version of it can so much change between era Or even country I do know in some country for us people Arthur was related to the Rome story ect but I do remember the old story for exclibur but in Quebec I do remember the lady of the lake do not exist.

but after this are really old story I don't remember much about them

 

[Vox Novus]

Excalibur has many names in different languages so it can be easy to confuse those. It should be noted that in some works Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone are different entities so in that sense the Sword in the stone is also a "legendary" sword.

Arthur has other weapons associated with him; this is from wikipedia:

"Excalibur is by no means the only weapon associated with Arthur, nor the only sword. Welsh tradition also knew of a dagger named Carnwennan and a spear named Rhongomyniad that belonged to him. Carnwennan ("Little White-Hilt") first appears in Culhwch and Olwen, where it was used by Arthur to slice the Black Witch in half.[1][22] Rhongomyniad ("spear" + "striker, slayer") is also first mentioned in Culhwch, although only in passing; it appears as simply Ron ("spear") in Geoffrey's Historia.[1][3] In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a Middle English poem, there is mention of Clarent, a sword of peace meant for knighting and ceremonies as opposed to battle, which was stolen and then used to kill Arthur by Mordred.[23] The Prose Lancelot of the Vulgate Cycle mentions a sword called Seure, which belonged to the king but was used by Lancelot in one battle."[24]

Also Lancelot's sword is sometimes given a legendary status; here's a wikipedia list of the anglo-saxon related mythical swords:

Swords from the Matter of Britain

• Arondight, Lancelot's sword.
• Clarent, a sword of peace meant for knighting and ceremonies as opposed to battle, which was stolen and then used to kill Arthur by Mordred.
• Coreiseuse (Wrathful), the sword of King Ban, Lancelot's father.
• Excalibur (also Caluburn, Caledfwlch, Calesvol, Kaledvoulc'h, Caliburnus), sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. Stated that it was forged in the Isle of Avalon.
• Galatine, the name of the sword given to Sir Gawain by the Lady of the Lake.
• Grail Sword, a cracked holy sword which Sir Percival bonded back together, though the crack remained.
• Secace, The sword that Lancelot used to battle the Saxons at Saxon Rock. It is translated as Seure (Sequence) in the Vulgate Cycle.
• Sword in the Stone, a sword in the Arthurian legend which only the rightful king of Britain can pull from the stone; sometimes associated with Excalibur.
• Sword with the Red Hilt, One of the swords wielded by Sir Balin. After his death, Merlin sealed it in the float stone where it remained until it was drawn by Sir Galahad.