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| Arthur Drawing the Sword from the Stone Walter Crane Illustration |
Today
I want to write about a subject that popped up in my head yesterday.
Swords.
Viking swords but then I found another interested subject about the swords. Something about Excalibur from King Arthur.
When I started my research today
about the Viking swords and their names I came across Gram it is a mythical
story that looks like the Arthurian story. (1.)
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| http://levigilant.com/Bulfinch_Mythology/bulfinch.englishatheist.org/b/guerber/Chapter26.htm |
In
short words Odin pushed the sword Gram into the heart of a mighty oak. Who took
it out of there would be fated to win battles.
Then I
started to research a little bit more and find out that in several mythologies
the Arthurian story was used. Both the stone story and the sword in the lake
are used in different stories.
You
could say that I was overwhelmed by these aspect of the stories seem the same
but are slightly different. I didn’t expect to find that many in different
mythologies and legends. I liked the idea of writing about it.
If you
look at:
- The Sigurd/Odin story (Nordic mythology)
- Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (Japanese mythology)
- Le Loi (Vietnamese legends)
- Arthur (English legends)
- Caledfwich (Celtic)
It is
all about a sword in a stone, oak or a sword that came out of the lake. (2.)
Then I
started to think is it possible that this story is from originally Nordic. What
If the Vikings had that story before the Arthur legend came out? In my journey
to that question I found out something interesting. (3) A battle called Mount
Beddon in the year 516 (not sure if it is that year) tells us that this is
associated with the Arthur legends. This fight was with Vikings. It is also the
kingdom of Umbria. (4)
Conclusion:
if Vikings and Arthur lived in the same timespan they have fight each other.
But it is not certain if they did.
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