# Seven Year Old Lady of the Lake
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566 "2017-09-05T17:35:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/1 "2017-09-05T17:35:36Z")
> **[Girl Pulls Sword From Legendary Lake Of King Arthur's Excalibur](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sword-found-in-excalibur-lake_n_59ae946ee4b0b5e53100b997?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009)**
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> Long live, Queen Matilda!
Matilda Jones found a sword in Dozmary Pool in Cornwall, which supposed to be where Bedivere returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
Her dad thinks it’s a movie prop. It’s certainly not all that old.
The sword doesn’t look at al like the prop from _Excalibur_, or from any other Arthurian film I’ve seen. (And they probably wouldn’t have filmed them at Dozmary Pond, either). Maybe from some locally-made documentary. who knows.
Really cool, though.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/2 "2017-09-05T17:57:49Z")
I’m guessing someone threw the sword in there originally precisely because of the lakes connection to the Arthur myths.
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/3 "2017-09-05T18:21:47Z")
Pretty cool for a seven-yr-old in any event.
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/4 "2017-09-05T18:38:08Z")
From the article:
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> Coincidentally, the discovery came just after Matilda’s father said he told his two young daughters, Matilda and her four-year-old sister Lois, the legend of King Arthur while vacationing from Doncaster.
“Coincidentally” my ass. Dad planted it there to give his little girl a fun thrill.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/5 "2017-09-05T18:43:14Z")
Those zany Brits [and their pond littering](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/4935903/Dr-Who-Dalek-found-in-pond.html)!
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/6 "2017-09-05T18:48:08Z")
I’m totally ready for an all-female reboot of CAMELOT.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/7 "2017-09-05T18:50:19Z")
> [@cmkeller](#):
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> “Coincidentally” my ass. Dad planted it there to give his little girl a fun thrill.
Won’t you be surprised when Queen Matilda takes the throne with a re-awakened Merlin as her Chief Minister. 😉
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/8 "2017-09-05T18:52:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> Won’t you be surprised when Queen Matilda takes the throne with a re-awakened Merlin as her Chief Minister. 😉
A List is already being compiled.
I, for one, welcome our new Arthurian Rulers.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/9 "2017-09-05T18:58:56Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#):
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> I’m totally ready for an all-female reboot of CAMELOT.
The porn parody will of course be called _Cameltoe_.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/10 "2017-09-05T18:59:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Those zany Brits [and their pond littering](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/4935903/Dr-Who-Dalek-found-in-pond.html)!
Tell me about it.
They found the Space Station from **2001** out in a field:
[http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=41376](http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=41376)
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/11 "2017-09-05T19:06:43Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
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> Won’t you be surprised when Queen Matilda takes the throne with a re-awakened Merlin as her Chief Minister. 😉
Now look, she can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because the watery tart found a scimitar in a lake.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/12 "2017-09-05T19:12:12Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Now look, she can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because the watery tart found a scimitar in a lake.
I don’t know, [Queen Matilda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(novel)) probably has powers of her own.
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/13 "2017-09-05T19:14:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> The porn parody will of course be called _Cameltoe_.
That’s off, referring to pre-teens.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/14 "2017-09-05T19:29:14Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#):
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> That’s off, referring to pre-teens.
Eh, I didn’t associate the comment with having a cast of the people from the news article.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/15 "2017-09-05T19:40:59Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> . . . Her dad thinks it’s a movie prop. It’s certainly not all that old. . . .
I agree that it can’t be very old. In the picture, it’s still got a leather wrapping on the hilt.
Where are our sword geeks? If wikipedia has it right, King Arthur would have lived somewhere between 450 and 550 AD. [This one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abingdon_Sword) came a couple of centuries after. Sutton Hoo is a couple of centuries later, too.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/16 "2017-09-05T19:44:35Z")
It looks a lot like a claymore produced by a local armory for sword geeks. Strictly a show-piece.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/17 "2017-09-05T19:56:41Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> I agree that it can’t be very old. In the picture, it’s still got a leather wrapping on the hilt.
I have a Civil War sword my Grandfather found that looks worse than that. Can anyone guess how long it had been underwater?
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### Author:  [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/18 "2017-09-05T20:43:25Z")
Does Matilda have a half-sister? Named Morgan, perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/19 "2017-09-05T21:00:31Z")
I remember when a Dalek was found in a lake a few years back [A Dalek Was Found at the Bottom of a UK Pond | The Mary Sue](https://www.themarysue.com/dalek-found-in-uk-pond/)
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seven-year-old-lady-of-the-lake/795566/20 "2017-09-05T21:03:58Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> I agree that it can’t be very old. In the picture, it’s still got a leather wrapping on the hilt.
I don’t know about that…I’d expect a magical sword to resist the elements pretty darn well.
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