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4/29/05
In Le Morte d'Arthur the sword in the stone is not named, and
Excalibur is the sword that comes from the Lady of the Lake at the time of
the duel with Pellinore. In modern times it's generally assumed by the masses
that Excalibur was the sword in the stone also. In the movie Excalibur
John Boorman (who claimed his movie to be a faithful adaptation of Le
Morte d'Arthur) addressed the muddle by having Arthur pull Excalibur from
the stone, break it in a duel with Lancelot (not Pellinore), and - once he'd
learned his lesson - get it back reforged from the Lady of the Lake. Above is
the Arthur, King of Time and Space fix for the muddle.
Then there are earlier sources in which Arthur hands off Excalibur to
Gawaine for most of the story, when he finds another sword that's shinier,
that he takes from a defeated enemy who's supposedly Hercules' descendant and
whose sword was supposedly once Hercules' sword despite having a decidely
French name.
I really don't mean to use the fairy tale arc for nothing but its capacity as
the baseline arc. There's just a lot to be covered at the beginning.
Webcomics I read mornings:
The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge,
Peanuts,
General Protection Fault,
Todd and Penguin,
College Roommates from Hell!!!,
Kevin & Kell,
Real Life
Webcomics I read middays:
Calvin & Hobbes,
Least I Could Do,
User Friendly,
Questionable Content,
Dandy and Company,
Queen of Wands
Webcomics I read evenings:
B.C.,
Pearls Before Swine,
Count Your Sheep,
Schlock Mercenary,
Sinfest,
Irregular Comic,
Little Dee
Webcomics I read bedtimes:
Something Positive,
Bruno,
Wapsi Square,
Medium Large,
Alice!,
Sluggy Freelance,
PvP
Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings:
El Goonish Shive,
Checkerboard Nightmare,
Gossamer Commons,
Penny
Arcade
Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings:
Reasoned Cognition,
Fish Institution,
Theater Hopper,
Girl Genius,
Megatokyo
Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa:
Digger,
AppleGeeks,
Striptease,
Her: Girl vs Pig,
Get Out of My Head,
Order of the Stick
Webcomics I read Mondays:
The Whovian Observer,
Framed!!!,
Vigilante, Ho!,
Butternut Squash,
Pibgorn,
Boxjam's Doodle
Webcomics whose archives I'm in the middle of:
Rolling With the Punches
See also
Talk About Comics,
The Belfry Comics Index,
The Webcomic List,
Nth Degree,
100% Originality Theatre,
Comixpedia and
Websnark.
Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian
Legend
Arthuriana - the
Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the
North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four
Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW -
The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged
entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble
Knights of the Round Table,
Volume 1 and
Volume
2.
