What is the name of Sir Gawains Sword in Arthurian Legend?
There is really no name. In Sir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” we are told: “But when Sir Gawaine saw that, he took with him Sir Idrus the good knight, and said he would never see King Arthur but if he rescued them, and pulled out Galatine his good sword, and followed them that led those two knights away.” See http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mart/mar… . The Winchester manuscript of Malory has a longer version of the Roman war which contains another mention of the sword, called “Galantine” in that version of the text. In Malory’s source , the English “Alliterative Morte Arthure”, the sword is named Galuth. See lines 1385 and 1470 in http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/tea… . However other tales of Gawain either don’t mention any name for Gawain’s sword or give to Gawain the sword Caliburn/Escalibor, which Malory calls Ex
