Where has Excalibur gone?

Question: Where has Excalibur gone!?

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The legend of King Arthur has fascinated me since I was a kid and I read all the tales on Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad and the Holy Grail and Merlin, the fair Elaine, Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight, etc!.!.!.

Excalibur was apparently created (wrought!?) by the fairies and was set in stone (by Merlin!?) You probably know it was meant only to be drawn out by the King who would unite all the warring kingdoms of Britain!. Sadly, King Arthur was based loosely on a Romano-British 5th Century chieftan (this was during the 'Dark Ages' about what little is known!. There were lots of warring chieftans in Great Britain then, no overall ruler)!. In the legends, King Arthur has a last terrible battle with his son, Mordred (Mordred's mother was Arthur's half-sister Morgana)!. King Arthur and most of the knights of the round table are slain!. One of his surviving knights, (Sir Percival, I think) is instructed by Arthur to throw Excalibur into the lake!. He finally does so on his third request and the Lady of the Lake rises up to take the sword!. It has not been seen since!.

According to legend, King Arthur lies in Avalon to 'rise again' when Britain is in great peril!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

According to the best known medieval accounts of the end of Arthur, Arthur has his sole surviving knight, Girlfet, Bedwyer (Bedivere) or Lucan, depending on the version, throw the sword into a lake!. A hand rises from the lake, catches the sword, and pulls it down under the water!.

It is never seen again!.

The sword is generally named as Escalibor or Caliburn in French texts, as Caletvwlch in Welsh texts, and as Excalibur in Stir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur”!. Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed it was forged in Avalon!. In the romance generally known as the “Vulgate Merlin”, it is Escalibor is identified with the sword which Arthur pulled from the sword to gain the kingship!. In a later romance generally known as the “Post-Vulgate Merlin”, Arthur’s sword (the sword from the stone!?) breaks in battle, and Arthur gains a new sword with the help of a lake fay!. The sword is first seen as held by a hand rising from a lake, and is later named Escalibor!.

No other medieval tales, except these and derivatives of these mention any origin of Arthur’s sword!.

Sir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d'Arthur'' is based in its early sections on a work called the “Huth Merlin” which is in part taken from the “Vulgate Merlin” and in part from the “Huth Merlin”!. Accordingly it includes, both origins of Escalibor, that it was the sword from the stone, and that it was given to Arthur by a Fay!. Malory, in adapting and reducing this text, also includes both versions!.
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As most of the King Arthur stories are legends based only very loosely on fact (if at all), Excalibur probably never existed at all!.

There is virtually no archaeological evidence for Arthur, let alone his sword!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you read up on it you shall know that when king arthur died the lady of the lake took it with herWww@QuestionHome@Com

This should be in mythologyWww@QuestionHome@Com

he hid it in cornwallWww@QuestionHome@Com