The legend of King Arthur pulling the sword comes from the way swords were cast in the Bronze Age!

The legend of King Arthur pulling the sword comes from the way swords were cast in the Bronze Age!

Bronze Age swords appear from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea region and the Aegean, evolving out of the dagger. They are replaced by the Iron Age sword during the early part of the 1st millennium BC.

From an early time the swords reach lengths in excess of 100 cm. The technology to produce blades of such lengths appears to have been developed in the Aegean, using alloys of copper and tin or arsenic, around 1700 BC.

The Bronze Age method of casting a sword in a stone mold is probably the source of the literary and romantic images in the Arthurian legends that depict Arthur pulling the sword from the stone to become king.

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