Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 6 - The Sword Excalibur for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Watch the video. Find out what myth is mentioned and what possible historical explanation for it is suggested.

Answer

The story told is of the young Arthur being the only person who could pull the sword Excalibur from a stone. One explanation is that the myth is based on the old way of making swords, where they were pulled from a stone mould.