Mythology and Folklore

  A Knight's Take on King Arthur Today is the day of the tournament. I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to be crowned the King- after all, everybody knows I'm the best knight we have. I get that nobody was able to pull the sword from the stone, so they're making us do this, but I bet I could if I tried. In walks Arthur, wait- did I just see him with the sword from the stone? There's no way. Someone must have pulled it for him. If I, a noble knight, can't pull it, there's no way that low life did. I won't accept it.  The Moral of the Story That loser just got the sword. King Arthur and the sword Source:  Biography.com Author's Note This story was based on the tale of King Arthur and the sword! Arthur was a nobody in his village who was able to pull the sword from the stone, which was a power that only a king could do. They were trying to decide who would become the new king by a joust until Arthur was able to pull the sword. Nobody believed it, but...

 sir galahad went four days with no adventure until he came across a white abbey he went in the abbey and knights took him in and led him to a chamber where they told him that there was a shield which if you put it around your neck you would be dead on 3 days or find mischief  another knight bore it first and then died in a battle with another knight the knight gave the shield to a squire and said that only sir galahad could bear it  galahad bore the shield and went to a cemetery and lifted a stone, where there was a body and a bad smoke. he took a body out of the grave since he was not a Christian  he healed wounds and chased away bad knights and set free maidens sir lancelot came across a stone cross and a chapel which had an altar in it  he could not enter so he went to sleep  he had a dream that two palfreys came across a sick knight and he begged them to heal him the holy grail appeared and he prayed to it and it healed him of his sins the knight proph...

in britian, after uther pendragon died, every knight wanted to be king  the country became worse and worse and filled with evil merlin the magician went to the archbishop of Canterbury and agreed that the lords and gentlemen of britian would meet at the great church on Christmas day  at the church there was a large sword that said whoever pulled it out of the stone would be king  many people tried but were not able to pull it from the stone, so they had a tournament on new years day  sir kay, ector, and Arthur arrived to the tournament but forgot his sword so arthur went to get it  when he got to the house it was locked, so he went to the sword in the stone to pull it and gave it to sir kay  arthur told sir ector he pulled it so he was called the rightful king  his father said he was the son of uther pendragon and he was meant to be king  the people were reluctant to accept him since he was a common man, but every time they tried to contest it, he...