Tgunner | 04 Sep 2017 3:31 p.m. PST |
Well she did find a sword in Dozmary Pool in Cornwall. Granted the Lady of the Lake didn't give it to her but still… A pretty neat story. link |
Tgunner | 04 Sep 2017 3:31 p.m. PST |
Well she did find a sword in Dozmary Pool in Cornwall. Granted the Lady of the Lake didn't give it to her but still… A pretty neat story. link |
nnascati | 04 Sep 2017 3:38 p.m. PST |
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miniMo | 04 Sep 2017 3:42 p.m. PST |
Yes. And indeed the kingdom is in peril for Arthur to have returned! |
cavcrazy | 04 Sep 2017 3:43 p.m. PST |
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peterx | 04 Sep 2017 4:12 p.m. PST |
Long live the Queen! May her rule bring justice and peace to the green lands of Great Briton! |
Wackmole9 | 04 Sep 2017 5:17 p.m. PST |
Now if you can only finds the scabbard and she will be all set. |
Winston Smith | 04 Sep 2017 6:28 p.m. PST |
Matilda. That's a Queenly name. And she's cute and adorable too. |
robert piepenbrink | 04 Sep 2017 6:51 p.m. PST |
Well, I'm not sure that's the right sword--looks out of period. But the kingdom does seem to be imperiled. I say go for it! |
PrivateSnafu | 04 Sep 2017 7:06 p.m. PST |
This smacks of fake, fake, fake. I imagine they are enjoying their 15 minutes. |
rmaker | 04 Sep 2017 7:36 p.m. PST |
And it was not receiving the sword from the Lady of the Lake that made Arthur King, it was pulling the sword out of the stone. |
Murphy | 04 Sep 2017 8:04 p.m. PST |
"This smacks of fake, fake, fake. I imagine they are enjoying their 15 minutes." And it harm none, do as thou wilt…. |
piper909 | 04 Sep 2017 8:59 p.m. PST |
I once had a replica sword from the 1980s with that exact blade, guard, and grip. I expect some SCA-type may have thrown it in that lake once upon a time as a joke or party stunt. Nothing against the girl or others involved. |
Parzival | 04 Sep 2017 9:25 p.m. PST |
PrivateSnafu, if you read the whole article, the father states that he thinks the sword is probably a discarded movie prop. So neither the girl or her family are trying to fool anyone, or be famous, or claim that the sword is historic or authentic. It's clearly a light-hearted "human interest story," a cute, funny bit of news to lighten the day. So I say hail, Queen Matilda! (And for all we know, she really may be a descendant of Arthur; Jones is a Welsh name, and Arthur was (probably) Welsh.) |
PrivateSnafu | 04 Sep 2017 9:26 p.m. PST |
I read it. The fake part is they planted it. They created just enough plausibility…I have no ill will. |
Cerdic | 05 Sep 2017 3:00 a.m. PST |
Queen of the Britons? OK, but I'm English, Anglo-Saxon, so nothing to do with me…. |
PzGeneral | 05 Sep 2017 5:59 a.m. PST |
Maybe what the world needs IS the wisdom of a child….. |
ZULUPAUL | 05 Sep 2017 6:48 a.m. PST |
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steamingdave47 | 05 Sep 2017 9:21 a.m. PST |
@ Cerdic. You may live in England, but Anglo- Saxon? Like most of us, your ancestry is probably pretty mixed and almost certainly there is some. "British" in the mix ; might even be some Norman- French in there! |
Parzival | 05 Sep 2017 10:39 a.m. PST |
I read it. The fake part is they planted it. They created just enough plausibility…I have no ill will. Oh good grief. That sword is coated in rust. Even in the photo, which is far from a closeup, you can see the degradation of the blade. So the family just happened to have a mostly rusted away replica movie prop in the tool shed and plopped it in the lake, pulled it out, took a photo, waited for the media to call, so a seven-year-old could get a moment on the Internet? Frankly, that strikes me as more ludicrous than the suggestion that some Arthur film circa 1970-80, or even just a fantasy wedding group, chunked it in the lake for a dramatic photo and then couldn't find the dang thing and wrote it off as insignificant (or forgot to even look for it, or lost track of the prop count, or assumed an actor or crew member swiped it as a souvenir, etc.). And then, yes, years later the silt has been disturbed enough that a child spotted it while wading. Heck, kids have found dinosaurs, mammoths, diamonds, shells and grenades from long distant wars. Were all those plants, too? As it is, you might consider that your proposal, which is pure speculation (and not more than a little cynical) unnecessarily disparages the honesty of a family we do not know regarding an event at which we were not present and is furthermore an idea for which there is actually no evidence to support. So, yes, the sword is a fake, but the logic of the moment (and the evidence at hand) implies that the incident itself is entirely real.: A little girl went wading and stumbled upon an old movie sword in a lake associated with Arthurian legend. |
Shagnasty | 05 Sep 2017 11:43 a.m. PST |
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PrivateSnafu | 05 Sep 2017 12:49 p.m. PST |
@Parzival You have a good reasoned argument there. Characterizing me as disparaging for doubting the story is a bit of a stretch to my senses. Its my opinion, I'm not going on about it, but you risk doing so. People go to extraordinary lengths for attention. This is just the kind of story that the media dogs and internet will lap up. |
JMcCarroll | 05 Sep 2017 5:54 p.m. PST |
Now if Elton John gave her the sword ( the true queen of England ) she might have more street cred! Just saying… |
Elenderil | 06 Sep 2017 6:31 a.m. PST |
Monty Python should have the last word on this Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Arthur: Be quiet! Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Arthur: Shut up! Dennis: I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! |
Tom D1 | 06 Sep 2017 10:29 a.m. PST |
We see the violence inherent in the system. |
bobm1959 | 15 Sep 2017 11:25 a.m. PST |
She could be because she's not covered in s**t |