How does king arthur obtain his sword (excalibur)?
Merlin, upon realizing that Uther was NOT the prophecied king, took the sword back. Depending on which writing of it you read, Merlin then had the sword and put it in a rock, a tree, or hidden it from the eyes of everyone but the one who really was supposed to be the promised king. Arthur – fostered out as a child as was common in those days, grew up supposedly without knowledge that he was a king/war leader’s son. Merlin was either in his life as his teacher when Arthur was growing up, or he came later as Arthur reached his majority – about age 15. Either way,. Merlin was his guide and mentor for a time. As to how he aquired the sword – some versions say the sword became a holy shrine in the Christian sense, and was worshipped at and it became common effort to try to draw the sword from the stone – or the tree. And that there was rebellion when a young, untried, unknighted boy managed to draw it. More realistically, given the time and the religions of the area – Merlin hid the sword a
