There may be no difference, depending on your source. The sword in the stone story is first found in the Story of Merlinattributed to Robert de Boron. Robert gives no name to the sword in the stone. He may have intended it to be identified with Arthur's sword Caliburn or Escalibor (named "Excalibur" by Sir Thomas Malory in his Le Morte d'Arthur) but does not explicitly say so.
The identification becomes explicit in an addition to the Story of Merlin which is today commonly known as the Vulgate Merlin which adds an account of the first five years of Arthur's reign, up to the entombment of Merlin and the birth of Lancelot. See http://www.archive.org/details/vulgateversionof02sommuoft , page 94, line 26 for the Old French version and see a Middle English translation at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Merlin;rgn=div1;view=text;cc=cme;node=Merlin%3A7 , page 118. Here Arthur fights with the sword Escalibor which is clearly identified with the sword Arthur had drawn from the stone.
There is also a late Welsh account based mostly on the Vulgate Merlin which identifies the sword in the stone with Arthur's sword, here called Kaledvwlch as is usual in Welsh texts. See http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/kaledvwlch.html .
However there is an alternate version of Arthur's early years, today commonly known as the Post-Vulgate Merlin. In this version Arthur, with Merlin's aid, obtains his sword Escalibor from a hand and arm which rise from a lake. See http://books.Google.com/books?id=qjk27gRgV1IC&pg=PP7&dq=intitle:Merlin+inauthor:Paris&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false , beginning at page 196. An English translation of a Spanish adaptation of this work is found at http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/baladro/index.html . Note that in this account the actual finding of the sword in the lake is omitted with other material that should appear between chapter 21 and chapter 22. But the story of the naming of the sword appears at the end of chapter 22.
No other early romance tells of the origin of the sword, save for a statement in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae that Arthur's sword Caliburn was forged in Avalon.
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur actually derives in its earliest sections from an account which mixes material from the Vulgate Merlin and the Post-Vulgate Merlin. Accordingly in Book I, chapter IX, Malory uses the Vulgate Merlin version in which Arthur's sword Excalibur is identified with the sword from the stone. But in Book I, chapter XXV, Arthur obtains the sword from the lake and in Book II, chapter III, this sword is said to be Excalibur. See http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/ .
"The Sword in the Stone" is a Disney animated film that tells the story of a young King Arthur acquiring the sword in the stone, while "Excalibur" is a film that focuses on the reign of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, with Excalibur being the magical sword bestowed upon Arthur by the Lady of the Lake. Both stories feature King Arthur, but "Excalibur" delves deeper into his reign and the knights of the Round Table.
The sword in the stone and Excalibur are 2 different things. Merlin put the sword in the stone in the stone( which by pulling it out made Arthur King Arthur), and Excalibur was the sword that came later after the sword in the stone broke. Excalibur came from the Lady in the Lake.
King Arthur removed the sword called Excalibur from the stone. It was a legendary sword that only the true king of England was able to extract from the stone.
The sword in the stone is called Excalibur. It is the legendary sword of King Arthur in Arthurian legend.
The inscription on the stone of Excalibur usually reads "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone is the rightwise born king of all England." It signifies that the individual who can successfully pull the sword from the stone is destined to become the ruler of England.
The story of the sword in the stone is often associated with Wales because it features in the legend of King Arthur, who has strong Welsh connections in Arthurian literature. The tale of the sword in the stone is also found in other European cultures, but the Welsh version has added to its popularity in Wales.
The sword in the stone and Excalibur are 2 different things. Merlin put the sword in the stone in the stone( which by pulling it out made Arthur King Arthur), and Excalibur was the sword that came later after the sword in the stone broke. Excalibur came from the Lady in the Lake.
The sword, as far as I know, had no name. Excalibur is a totally different sword. Arthur got Excalibur soon after breaking the sword in the stone in battle.
The sword in the stone was in a churchyard in London.
The magnificient Excalibur was cast into the stone by Merlin the wizard.
Excalibur is a mythical sword, originally, pulled in a stone. The only true king was able to release it. It was the Arthur who took the sword out of stone and he was proclaimed the king.
No, but there is some confusion about which sword Excalibur actually was. In some versions of the legend, Excalibur was the sword that Arthur drew from the stone. In other versions of the same legend, Excalibur was the sword given to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake.
In the history of king Arthur he finds a competition to pull a sword out of a stone. He pulled out the sword and he named it Excalibur.
King Arthur removed the sword called Excalibur from the stone. It was a legendary sword that only the true king of England was able to extract from the stone.
He pulled the sword from the stone. this sword was not Excalibur.
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The sword's name in Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is Excalibur. It is the legendary sword stuck in the stone that can only be pulled out by the true king of England.