King Uther Calls Great Men

Soon after that, King Uther became very ill. He knew that he was going to die. Then Merlin came to him and said, “Call all your knights and great men and tell them, "My son, Arthur, will be king after me!"

King Uther did that before he died. But all the knights and great men began to fight: each wanted to make himself king. Merlin took Arthur away. He gave the child to a good knight named Sir Ector. Arthur grew up with Sir Ector's son, Kay, and became a man.

One day Merlin went to the archbishop and said, "Call all the great men of Britain to London. Then they will see the man who will be their king. "

All the knights and great men came to London. They went into the church, and the archbishop spoke to them. When they came out of the church, they saw in front of the church door a great stone. There was a sword in the stone, and there was writing on the stone:

The man who can take this sword out of the stone is King of Britain.

All the knights tried, one after another to take the sword out of the stone, but none of them could do it.

Arthur Becomes King

At the same time there was a great joust in London. All the great knights jousted in it. They began on their horses with spears. Some knights fell off their horses, and then they fought on foot with swords.

Sir Ector went to the joust with Sir Kay and Arthur. The two young men wanted to joust, but Sir Kay had no sword. Arthur said, "There is a sword in a stone near a church. I saw it on the way here. I'll get it and fight with it, and you can have my sword, Sir Kay. "

They went to the church. Arthur got off his horse; he took the sword in his hand - and it came out of the stone.

They went bаск to the field. When Sir Ector saw the sword, he said to Arthur, "You are my king."

They went to the archbishop. Then the archbishop called all the knights and said, "Put the sword back into the stone."

Arthur did so. All the knights tried again to take it out, but not one of them could do so. Arthur' took it out again. So they shouted, "Arthur is king! Arthur is king!"

They all went into the church, and the archbishop made Arthur king of Britain.

So Arthur became king. He married the most beautiful lady in England, Princess Guinevere, and she became his queen.

Then Merlin made the Round Table. Each knight had his name written at his place.

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Part 2