A scuba diver discovered a 900-year-old sword encrusted with seashells off the coast of Israel.
An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country’s Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders, according to Israel’s Antiquities Authority.
The diver was about 500 feet off the coast in 17-feet-deep water, which experts say is an area that is home to many archaeological treasures, some dating back 4,000 years, according to Israel’s Antiquities Authority.
The thing looks pretty cool.
It will keeel.
LOL at that.
Nope, sorry this little girl found Excalibur, and should therefore be Queen, about 3 years ago. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/girl-7-finds-4ft-sword-11106508
that sword is way late. blade catcher an all. Arthur was circa 700 AD, his dad had a Roman name
We know about as much about the historical Arthur as we do about the historical Herakles.
“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2c-X8HiBng
Everybody butchers Arthurian mythos.
Excalibur was given by The Lady in the Lake, it was not that that made Arthur king.
Arthur became king by pulling a different sword from a stone.
Read Jack Whyte. He reimagined Arthur splendidly.
May he Rest In Peace.
Scotsman who lived in Kelowna and sold millions more books than Atwood.
In fact, he could well be the best selling writer in Canada, not that the CBC would say so.
Oh, you should hear Jack hold forth on why he was spurned by the CanCon crowd.
The Mary Stewart trilogy also did a great job on this, telling it from Merlin’s view… She later did a fourth book, which I didn’t like as much.
I bet you aren’t clad in the purest samite, B.A.!
As to this sword, I keep thinking of a (much later) Hornblower quote when he tossed a compass overboard to stop the French from navigating in a lifeboat, “Swim for it…”!
I bet you aren’t clad in the purest samite, B.A.!
Nope, but my fashion-designer mother would have loved to have worked with it.
Loved the Skystone series!
Of all the cinematic treatments of King Arthur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail remains my favourite.
For a version that’s really over the top, watch Excalibur, directed by John Boorman about 40 years ago and featuring Dame Helen Mirren, with Patrick Stewart, Ciarán Hinds, and Liam Neeson in minor don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-them roles. On the other hand, a movie that borrows its music from the opening of Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana (the opening O Fortuna), as well as the overture to Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde, plus Siegfried’s funeral march from Die Götterdämmerung, can’t be all bad.
Mind you, it is rather amusing to see the Grail Knights dressed as though they were Cylons from the original Battlestar Galactica. I half expected a red light to move back and forth horizontally on the front of their helmets with them answering, “By our command.”
I enjoyed it. Merlin had some lines that stick:
“when a man lies, he murders some part of the world”.
Arthur’s father Uthur Pendragon shoved the sword ( from the lady in the lake) into the stone so those still loyal to Cornwall could not take it. Years later Arthur pulled the sword form the stone. It was returned to the lake after Arthur was mortally wounded by his son.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/
if I said I was an emperor just because some moistened bink tossed me a sword they’d put me away
Dennis is the best scene in the movie.
Here’s the Jerusalem Post article.
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/900-year-old-crusader-sword-found-by-scuba-diver-off-israels-coast-682306
Brave Sir Robin’s.
So the underwater area is host to many archeological treasures??? So 4,000 years ago this area was likely at or above sea level? And sea levels have therefore been rising all this time without our CO2 pollution driving it????
And just why are current rates of sea level rise different from what has been continuing for four millenia?
Must be nice to live in a country where research into the real history of the country is still possible.
Wonder how many Muslims that thing dispatched.
Not only that, it rises differently in different parts of the world. Geophysics, not AGW. 🙂
Photoshopped or staged image of the sword on the bottom. Trust me, I watch videos of the bottom of the ocean every day.
Historians and all the right people today believe that any land conquered by Islam must forever remain under Islamic rule.
The Crusades were a counterattack, mention that to any of these good people and they either laugh or lose their minds.
As is the word ” infidel ” which was coined by the Crusaders as a label for the Muslims.
The Muslims version of it is Kuffar or Kuffir as their label for us non believers .
A clear case of cultural appropriation and revisionist white European history.
You see, oral tradition tells us that there was this indigenous warrior named Gideon …
“Jacob Sharvit, director of the Marine Archaeology Unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority, holds a sword that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.”
… and should know not to remove the sword from its salt water environment allowing it to rapidly oxidize before it is stabilized in a lab.
Anyhew…. T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King” is probably the best and most enjoyable version of the Arthurian legend ever written. It is the book to be quested. Especially excellent reading for secondary school and college readers. Excellent as well to read to younger folks. I look forward to retirement when I shall once again enjoy good literature.
I think it was the T.H . White version that had a sign over the ant’s
tunnel that said ” Anything that is not compulsory is forbidden”.
I think we may now be approaching that point.