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Saw this article posted somewhere yesterday, and someone there commented that the sword on display is a reproduction. The original sword is in a museum or something.

Right? It looks super easy to get off of there. Getting up there and leaving with it might be a different story but physically it doesn’t look like it would take much effort.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

I appears he had a disagreement with the locals and some people lost their heads

Anything is better than this right wing shit show they just elected?

Maybe that's why they used "quotes" around "Excalibur" and mentioned its real name in the article.

Charlemagne

from Latin magnus -> "Charles the Great"

I wouldn't necessarily want to claim the throne in a country that once invented a machine for getting rid of kings by getting rid of their heads very efficiently.

And it was written that no hand but his should wield the Sword held in the Stone, but he did draw it out, like fire in his hand, and his glory did burn the world. Thus did it begin. Thus do we sing his Rebirth. Thus do we sing the beginning.

It looks like a bank pen, just challenging any wielder to take it.

If France was actually cool they could do something very, very funny when he reveals himself.