EXCALIBUR was to rise up from the waters. So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. Lo! said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of.
(Malory’s Morte d’Arthur)
Swords of heroes and sacred kings were typically forged in the Otherworld and were presented to the hero by an otherworldly woman or taken in adventure from a stone, a tree, or as in Excalibur's case both - the Sword in the Stone and the Lady of the Lake gifting it for a later favour with Arthur taking it from a samite clad hand brandishing the sword from the waters of the lake. On the hero's death, the sword must return to its origin.
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