Why did King Arthur mark the history?

Answer 1

King Arthur is a character from a legend called the Sword in the Stone. The legend goes something like this:

The King asked Merlin to go take his son someplace safe, because there was some sort of curse on the family, and he thought he was going to die soon. He didn't want his son, currently an infant, to be harmed, so Merlin took him to a poor country side family, and put a sword in a stone with words carved into the sides. I can't remember the exact words, but it proclaimed that whoever draws the sword from the stone was to be the new king. There was a ceremony on New Year's Eve every year where they would hold a jousting contest. If you won the jousting contest, then you would try to pull the sword from the stone. For many years, they found nothing, and Arthur grew up with a family that disliked him, and was frequently harsh on him. One year, Arthur's older brother was entering the competition, and stayed at a nearby inn. When they got there, the brother had forgotten his sword, so they had Arthur go fetch it. Arthur ran to the inn, which he found locked because of the ceremony-the innkeeper went to the ceremony like everyone else-and panicked. Arthur saw another sword protruding from a stone. He easily pulled the sword out of the stone, and ran back to give it to his brother. His family questioned where he got it, and Arthur told them about the locked inn and the sword in the stone, and the entire village ran back to the stone, where they replaced the sword, and had the older brother try, to no prevail. Arthur tried again, and is slid out of the stone easier than one would think a sword coming out of a stone would be. Merlin proclaimed him king, and everyone lived happily ever after.

So really, King Arthur didn't mark history, because he was a character from a legend, but if he were real, he would've been marked for a fair king and being able to pull the sword out of the stone.