In Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot is a Knight of the Round Table. I know he has a sword that starts with A, but I don't know the full name of it. Anyone know it's full name?
Five answers:
anonymous
2009-04-10 16:27:52 UTC
Arondight
Jallan
2009-04-11 08:43:45 UTC
Lancelot's sword is not named in any medieval Arthurian legend.
Some modern novelist may have named it Arondight, or maybe the name was used in a modern game.
But "Arondight" does not come from any of the medieval Arthurian tales. It is certainly not Celtic in form. “Dight” is an Old English word in origin. “Aron” seems to be meaningless. I suspect whoever invented it only intended to make up a name that sounds vaguely medieval. The name does NOT appear anywhere in Celtic mythology or legend. And Lancelot does not appear in any but very late Welsh texts, notably in translations of French romances.
“Joyeuse” was the legendary sword of King Charlemagne, found earliest in surviving texts in the “Song of Roland”. I suspect T. H. White knew of this, and purposely used the name for Lancelot's sword in his “Once and Future King”.
Pansophecles
2009-04-10 16:37:01 UTC
Lancelot's sword is called "Joyeux" in both T. H. White's The Once and Future King and Rosemary Sutcliff's The Road to Camlann. In celtic mythology it is Arondight.
Jen McB
2009-04-10 16:17:49 UTC
Arondight
Melmoth the Wanderer
2009-04-10 16:22:31 UTC
Thought it was Excallibur.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Could have been Algernon.
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