King Arthur vs. Excalibur - European Arthurian Legend - Extra Mythology
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Someone has stolen Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur, and "surprisingly" they're going to be using it for some nefarious deeds. Watch as King Arthur fights against his beloved blade and wins the hearts of the people as death looms over him.
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3:36 I did not know that Steven Segal was also invited to sit in the middle to hear the story
Hey stay away from my name
The more you learn about Arthurian legend, the less of a parody Monty Python and the Holy Grail looks like.
Remember, the group were all Cambridge students, many studying humanities. Cleese especially. They *knew* what they were making fun of.
Morgan Probably:
Fairies distributing sword is no basis of government right, oh in this time line it does?
Well, consider stealing someone's sword is also the basis of government right.
Screw you, democratic and people power.
Start scheming.
Same for Life of Brian! My son and I read Zealot by Reza Aslan around the same time some years ago, and kept calling each other in delight as we ran across more and more elements of first century Palestine that LoB got dead on! There’s a special place in my heart for sly absurdist humor built on a foundation of accuracy.
Oh, and my cat is named Sir Robin the Brave 😁 (he even has his very own Vicious Chicken of Bristol)
It seems like the best parodies are often created by the people who love the source material the most...
@@safaiaryu12created by people who find the information sources can be easily be made fun of
I love that the one woman he trusts the most is not his wife, but his half sister who has been constantly scheming his downfall🤦🏿♂️
Blame later writers. Originally, Morgan was the fairy queen of Avalon and was one of yhe maidens who broughy Arthur to Avalon to be healed. She was later converged with Morgause/Ana, Arthur's actual half sister
Oh, cruel cruel irony.
An inspiration for Starscream perhaps? 😂
It makes sense if you have sisters.
It reminds me of The Emperor's New Groove, and Kuzco's utter inability to realize that his adviser Yzma is out to get him.
Morgan hadn't heard these immortal words: "Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."
ikr
“Supreme executive power is wielded by a mandate from the masses not from farcical aquatic ceremony”
I mean thst depends in the terms of kingdoms it is since it can only be removed by the people who were well in the royal family by blood realistically though? No
But a strange sword stuck in a stone is, apparently
To anyone confused thinking the sword came from being stuck in a stone that sword wasn’t Excalibur but Caliburn. The sword that could only be removed by the true king.
Actually my friend, Excalibur and Caliburn are on in the same!
Its Clarent, a ceremonial blade, that was the sword in the stone.
@@istvanbrooks5319 hmm, are there multiple stories about the sword in the stone because I never heard of Clarent.
@@jarg_64 There's no firm Arthurian canon, and most of what we think of as Arthurian canon was written centuries after the original stories came about.
@@jarg_64 Clarent is ceremonial, and was used to knight people by Arthur
it depends, there's equal amounts of evidence that the Sword in the Stone had no name & Caliburn was another name for Exaclibur, or that there was only one sword, or that the SotS was called Caliburn
Damn, Arthur bringing that shonen hero energy. Both naively giving up his power to an obvious villain, and Not Giving Up(tm) when forced to fight without it. Love it.
The later Arthurian cycles also had a lot of tournament arcs and back and forth over who the strongest knight was. Yea, it'd make a great Shonen anime.
Bringing up Arthur as a shonen hero is funny because in Fire Force there's a character named Arthur who views himself as the Knight King.
He is completely delusional and he memorized Pi because of the Knight Sir Cumference.
"Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cos some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
"...stupid peasant...!"
"...help, help, i'm suppressed...!"
😉
...a classic...! 😁👍
Came here to say this
@@Packless1 "COME SEE! COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!"
They should have at least checked whether she was a witch or not. Maybe they had no duck at hand.
@@kaltaron1284 Maybe they had some very small rocks?
I'm sure the sword is pretty dandy and all, but we know it can't hold a candle to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
@cdcdrr: “…look at the bodies !!!”
-Tim, the Sorcerer
Nothing beats the holy hand grenade of antioch. It's both a ranged and close quarter weapon! At least as long as you don't mind going down too.
@@beskamir5977Or can countest to three before thou lobbest it at thine enemies.
@@MerennulliCONSULT THE BOOK OF ARMAMENTS!!!
@@bmyers7078it’s look at the bones
Of course, following this version of the Arthurian stories, Excalibur is clearly not the Sword in the Stone, which means you have to acknowledge the existence of Clarent.
Or caliburn, depending on who you ask.
But yeah arthurian legend. There's a lot up to interpretation.
Caliburn isn't a separate sword, it's an an earlier version of the name Excalibur.
Pretty sure names for the sword in the stone, in versions it's not Excalibur, are all relatively modern inventions.
Arthur without excalibur:
"Tis but a scratch"
‘Tis but a mere flesh wound! 😅😂🤣
So does King Arthur have to shouted "EXCALIBUR !!" So giant beam of light can be materialised from that sword ?
It is required
Well, considering that everyone believes in magic at the time, which means magical protection is real.
For him to kill 470, in a day, it at least required magical boost to his stamina , or to his firepower.
So yeah, perhaps, not giant laser beam, but sharpening Excalibur to the point it cuts steel like it cuts butter, literally, what makes it a sword
like a true anime character, he must say his attacks before attacking.
According to the video, the shout is supposed to be "GOD~!" in all caps. But eh.
I still don't know how to shout in caps. That's a skill only possessed by BRIAN BLESSED.
I'm a bit Arthurian nerd (as if my name doesn't give that away) and to finally hear someone mention the power of Excalibur's Scabbard, made me immensely happy!!
no joke, that was actually a plot point in a Sonic game too
Not a Arthur nerd at all but as an Aquaman fanboy I imagine it's like when people acknowledge him shooting lightning at people or straight up mind controlling them.
Or like being a StarWars fan and somebody mentioning any warlord other than Theawn (Zsinj was the real MVP)
Pretty much everybody who's not a normie knows, but so many people are normies then when it's mentioned it makes you just a little giddy inside :)
So that WASN'T just something Fate made up? Awesome!
In Fate it makes King Arthur basically invulnerable
“For the scabbard is worth two of the sword…”
-7th Doctor, Battlefield, 1989
Was he “careless” with Excalibur though?
Or “generous” with it?
He believed it was the source of invincibility. He could have hoarded the power for himself.
Would you lend nuclear bombs to your friend? You can't trust most people with great power, and his trust in his sister was clearly misplaced
Both
Generosity would be lending the blade to a proven-trustworthy servant or friend for a cause worthy of its power. Carelessness would be lending it to someone who could easily lose it or for trivial reasons, or allowing it into the possession of someone with a known history of being antagonistic to him. Any king worth the crown on their brow knows lending their personal blade to someone is handing them a level of authority second only to giving them your signet ring; it's not something you do without careful consideration, all the moreso when the sword in question is *Excalibur* itself.
Thinking about how many swords Arthur has had: Caliburn, Clarent, Excalibur, and the dagger Carnwennan.
Two of those are the same sword.
depends on the legend
Meanwhile, Mordred is on the sidelines, rolling his eyes and thinking "I could do better then that."
"I'm nothing without this sword."
"Then you don't deserve it."
According to Norma Goodrich, Arthur was called The Hammer.
Camelot was "Caer Mallot", or Fort of the Hammer.
Camelot was wherever Arthur was, not a fixed place.
Ex Caliber was not a fighting sword, but a symbol of authority.
Arthur fought with a war hammer.
According to Norma.
The best part about all the comedy works of the Arthurian mythos is that the most unrealistic part of all of them is how few incredibly bad decisions Arthur and his court makes.
The version of the legend I was familiar with did not say that whoever wears the scabbard of Excalibur cannot be wounded, but that he heals faster and cannot lose blood while wearing it. Wounds that would otherwise be fatal are therefore not as big of a deal, but blunt force trauma could still break bones etc,
I can't believe King Arthur did the first ever Dark Souls Broken Sword run.
Can't believe King Arthur would play with cheat codes.
The lady of the lake: her arm clad in the finest samite, set forth that I, Arthur, would wield Excalibur -- THAT IS WHY!
Okay, but does he ever use it to beat up Irish Hercules?
Sadly she was never FATEd to meet him.
I see what you did there, fellow fate fan
@@farisfaiz7185 You’re welcome. Also…However, Actually Satan definitely did.
Ah the great hero Choo Choo Lame! Would be a great battle!
@@ShadowBaron22 bite me, bite me.
What did he expect. Her name was literally "Morgan the Fae."
Behold, the ancient sword of power, Excalibur! Forged when the world was young when man, beast and flower were one and death was but a dream.
First we see how Merlin died, and now we get to see how the great King Arthur met HIS end.
It is said every Excalibur artillery round has a little bit of Excalibur's soul in it.
What is the caliber of Excalibur?
@@HansLemurson 155mm
IIRC one version of the Arthurian legends said that the first time he fought with it, he had no idea that the scabbard could keep him from being wounded. He found that out after a duel with a famous warlord/knight and when Merlin told him that particular power he was ready to ride back to the lake and chuck that blade right back because he did NOT want to be a cheating bastard even in life and death matches. Merlin slapped that down pretty quick, reminding him that as a King, his life was not entirely his own and he had a responsibility to live and rule well.
That honestly would explain why Arthur seemed so Cavalier about losing the sword or the scabbard, he probably always felt at least a little like a fraud using it.
And why he fought so damn hard when someone was using it against him. To prove that the Sword was NOT why he was a great knight and king.
"You desire power? Then power you shall have. But just a small fraction though, we can't be too wasteful you know!"
-The Caliburn
1:25 i always love seeing the kingdom key as a refference
Ok i know it's the animation style but the closeup of the apparently decapitated servant holding Excalibur at 0:50 was a little unsettling.
Though that certainly wouldn't be all that weird a detail as Arthurian legends go.
I like the new Extra Mythology art style!
Scott Dewitt did this episode! He's a fantastic artist.
Interesting variation of the story.
Another version that I like is Marion Zimmer-Bradley's Avalon series. It tries to make things a bit closer to (possible) history but keeps the major fantastic story beats. Might be something for the So you haven't read series. Although covering it all even broadly might be difficult.
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i hope we get more tales of Arthur and the round table Extra myths. lots of great stories and silly tales in them.
The Legend of King Arthur is one of my favorites. he and his round table exemplified honor, courage and self sacrifice.
"And this is Excalibur, sword of Kings since the dawn of time"
As Merlin said, the scabbard is worth ten of the sword.
King Arthur is never learned anything of his mistakes even not trusted gives the powerful sword to his sister on her dark plans. This be interesting, good and very helpful video.
In The Lord of the Rings (book), Galadriel gave a rune-covered scabbard to Aragorn for his sword Anduril that not only told the name and lineage of the sword, but would also protect it from being "stained or broken even in defeat." 😉
6:17 so Arthur pulled a "I can do this all Day" moment
This legend may be why I'm a fan of the trope where the antagonist has stolen the protagonist's power/item but the protagonist still prevails because all of their feats of power come from within them and not the power/item they wield.
I like how Merlin and the Lady in the Lake did all of it so we in Britain could get Paddington. 😁
He clearly got the diamond sword in creative mode🤦♂️
There we go finally a minecraft joke
If you guys do more Arthurian stuff, I'd like to suggest:
The Vulgate Cycle version of Merlin's birth and youth: he was essentially meant to be the Anti-Christ.
Brutus/Brut from the early parts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia and how it tied the founding of Britain into the Trojan Wars.
The whole Quest for the Holy Grail (Galahad Version) gets pretty bonkers too.
i always like the parallels between the arthurian legends and the chinese world of murim, they always seem similer to me with their mystisicm and magic
So merlin is a daoist immortal and the lady of the lake is a fairy. Arthur is the emperor of the dynasty.
When Wisdom is your dump stat
Arthur's stats probably in order:
*Charisma
*Strength
*Constitution
*Intelligence
*Dexterity
*Wisdom
as far as I know, wasn't excalibur created thanks to merlin in his young years when he created excalibur with the help of magic and a magical dragon flame, and it was said that if ecalibur is pulled out for dishonorable reasons, that person will be cursed to see those he killed
That was Caliburn That would become Excalibur
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
If I went 'round, saying I was an emperor, just 'cause some moistened bint had lobbed a scimatar at me, they'd put me away!
2:44 they got their priorities straight guys! Give that bear all the marmalade he wants🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Seal 13....DECISION START!
love how many different versions of Arthur tale have developed over the years! Morgan (or variations of the name) has been everything from his son or daughter to his sister, brother, uncle or aunt. i grew up with the version that Morgan was some kind of wicked step brother and that they both died together in battle. i also find it fun how the Britons (from Brittany) and the french twisted the legends in other ways, with various french knights in some tales, lots of love affairs in others and the infamous cuckolding Lancelot (which is a french version that for some reason became popular around Edward 3rd reign...) imagine what the original Arthur back in the dark ages, leading the romano-british as a war leader against the saxons and other brittonic and germanic tribes would make of his legacy...
Its key to note that the Tale of King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table is a reflection of High and Late Medieval Society even though some events supposedly occur in the Early Middle Ages.
The tale is moralistic and for entertainment rather than historical
King Arthur: Bloody peasant!
“Help !
Help !
I’m being repressed !”
- Dennis the Peasant (~1975)
I think that a 6 day war series would be pretty cool
where's the part where he/she nukes her enemies with a magical/golden ray?
Mordred is like
Mordred: NOTICE MEEEEEEEE!
Arthur: Nooo
4:20
Huh! how hypocritical of Merlin
"In anyone else's hands Excalibur was just a pretty sweet sword."
So sweet, apparently, that it almost killed Arthur.
when you put it like that, it honestly makes a lot of sense Excalibur would end up in the hands of Sonic the Hedgehog
Ayy nice to see that classic Cornish lad King Arthur
4:49 epic face.
Yall are pure chads yall gotta do this often
Fellas, almost a whole third of this video is an ad read; come on.
0:53 this looks like as if her head was cut off lol
Got a good chuckle from the dramatization bit - very animesque. 😂
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The Merlin-Arthur antics were justified in the series.
2:45 Merlin: *WE'RE SO CLOSE TO THE PADDINGTON TIMELINE!*
Well he should have just destroyed the sword with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, duh.
I recommend a show called Camelot. It portrays Arthurian legend with interesting twists. It only lasted one season on Stars but it was still really good.
I always did wonder how Arthur lost Excaliber's scabbard. It was the only way Mordred could have landed a mortal wound on him.
Arthur was so powerful he even beat Gilgamesh
Bonus points you put him in chainmail, so many have him in plate, which was many years later.
Nice to know more about the sword of Britain's First King
PANR has tuned in.
3:21 bro be on creative mode😂
"And, did you know that streaming services actually-"
"No"
My eyes....are filled with curiosity
When seeing this video that was reccomended to me
Wow, I caught the video right as it was uploaded!
There you are, a squire for your brother, then all of a sudden, you’re a king
Insert Obligatory joke about Obligatory Reference about Swords, Kingships and Watery Tarts.
6:17 - Tis but a scratch.
I kind of chuckled through this since most of my mythology class was taken up with counting the errors in Bulfinch's Mythologhy.
3:06 i love how the slash across the earth wasn't even connected with Britain
SEIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Merlin is SO YOUNG IN THIS VIDEO!
Glorious Episode thank for that👍. But we definetly need an Episode about Waterloo
How has nobody made a Game of Thrones series of this yet? It's perfect for an ensamble-cast type of story-telling.
This was a great video, but it's becoming increasingly annoying to see 1/3 of each video become an advertisement. There's like, 12 minutes of content here, yet 7 of them are worth watching. I even say this as someone with a Nebula subscription and supports Nebula
I love this channel
"Half-naked women in lakes are no basis for a government!"
A fun theory I've heard about the Lady in the Lake.
Back in those days, they sometimes used something called Bog Iron. which, unsurprisingly. Was Iron you found in Bogs.
However. Bog Iron was known to be stronger than normal iron.
Unknowingly to them it was because the Iron had a bit of Carbon in it from the rotting vegetation in the bogs.
So. A different interpretation of him being given Excalibur by the lady of the lake.
Was that he was gifted a strong sword made of Bog Iron, by some hermit-esque blacksmith in that bog.
So the lady of the lake, wouldn't be a waif of a fairy lady.
But a butch survivalist blacksmithing woman
I hear King Arthur and I think of a woman in blue or a Welsh skeleton man who hates Saxons,French aswell as Normans and has to fight version of himself who progressively get less Welsh including a French one piloting a mech
Don't get all your love from anime. The real stuff is just as much fun.
Fr
@@Loremastrful the second one is from an American comic written by an Irish man, a major theme of the story is how much Arthur's tale has been retold so many times
No wonder he was so strong, he has a diamond sword and Everyone else has an iron sword.
Yes sword is been in so many pieces of media and even showed up in a sonic game had A great mean theme and now much more outside of graphics
You did a Kingdom Hearts reference, but no FGO reference??
... For shame, people.
Exactly what I thought. The scabbard part would be a perfect fate reference but no
That's not the lore I know.
The sword was lost on purpose because the sword literally would never shut up.
I don’t get that reference.
@@NicoBabyman1That's the Excalibur from the world of madness my friend and it was a good decision to lose the sword.
@@matthewrobinson6091 “world of madness”? You mean SOUL EATER?
"Are you just a dream, Merlin?"
"A dream to some...A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS."