The Hero's Tragic Hero

“Sir, I will tell you. When I came home for my brother's sword, I found nobody at home to deliver me his sword; and so I thought my brother Sir Kay should not be swordless, and so I came hither eagerly and pulled it out of the stone without any pain.”
“Found ye any knights about this sword?” said Sir Ector.
“Nay,” said Arthur.
“Now,” said Sir Ector to Arthur, “I understand ye must be king of this land.”
“Wherefore I,” said Arthur, “and for what cause?”
“Sir,” said Ector, “for God will have it so; for there should never man have drawn out this sword, but he that shall be rightwise king of this land. Now let me see whether ye can put the sword there as it was, and pull it out again.”
“That is no mastery,” said Arthur, and so he put it in the stone; wherewithal Sir …show more content…
And so anon was the coronation made. At the coronation, Merlin made it known that Arthur was in fact Ygraine’s only living blood, who was always to be King. Within few years after his coronation, Arthur won all the north, Scotland, and all that were under their obeissance. Also Wales, a part of it, held against Arthur, but he overcame them all, as he did the remnant, through the noble prowess of himself and his Knights of the Round Table. He became the greatest ruler of Albion there has ever