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Dozemary Pool
Cornwall, England
Local legend describes this as the lake into which Sir Bedivere cast
Arthur's magical sword, Excalibur.
It took him three attempts, so drawn was he to the mighty
weapon but when he finally complied with the wounded king's wish, a hand rose
from the lake and caught the sword and brandished it three times before
vanishing again beneath the water.
In fact, this is one of several sites where this event is supposed
to have taken place: Pomparles Bridge, at Glastonbury, is another, as is
Looe Pool and Llyn Llydaw in Wales. In reality, despite its atmospheric
setting high on Bodmin Moor, Dozemary is one of the least likely sites
for the last resting place of Excalibur. For one thing, it is too far from
any of the traditional sites of the Battle of Camlann, where Arthur received
his fatal wound; for another, despite stories of the lake being bottomless,
it is far from that and in fact dried up almost entirely in 1859, making
it an unlikely home for the Lady of the Lake.
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