To have people try to pull out the sword to become king.
The magnificient Excalibur was cast into the stone by Merlin the wizard.
his old sword broke during battle, so he asked Merlin, how he could get a new, better sword?, so Merlin took him to a lake, where the magical lady of the lake gave him the magical sword, excalibur.
T. H. White wrote The Sword in the Stone.
He did pull a sword out of stone. It wasn't the same sword King Aurthur pulled. Sir Galahad's sword didn't have a name.
excaliber was given to king Arthur by the lady of the lake. it is said that he took his sword and attacked a innocent knight and his sword shattered. after this king Arthur needed a sword so Merlin took him to see the lady of the lake. at the lake there was a hand protruding from the surface holding excaliber. Merlin and Arthur rode a raft to the hand and got the sword.
To put a sword into a stone, the sword would typically need to be forcefully pushed or driven into the stone with a lot of strength. This action is often depicted as a symbol of great power or destiny in various legends and stories.
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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.
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The magnificient Excalibur was cast into the stone by Merlin the wizard.
Merlin, is a wizard and a great friend of King Arthur.
The sword in the stone is nobody, it is a model. There is a legend of a wizard named Merlin, to help king aurthur seek the sword.
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In the legend of King Arthur, it was the wizard Merlin who placed the sword in the stone, proclaiming that only the true king of England would be able to pull it out. This act was a test to find the rightful ruler of the land.
Merlin, the magician.
In some versions of the legend, Merlin placed the sword in the stone, in other versions it was supposed to be the sword of Maximus who put the sword in the stone before he went off to Rome to become emperor, pledging that the sword would remain until the day he returned to rule England.
Merline can turn Arthur into a squirrel.