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Beraltbur The romantic tales about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are among the best-known legends in the Western world. For most of us they were introduction to the world of chivalry of knights in shining armor seeking honor and glory in combat, of beautiful women watching their lovers engage in brilliant tournament competition. That world seems far removed from our own technologically advanced but uncertain times. The Camden Military Academy connection, however; between this publication, Excalibur, and the legendary Sword Excalibur of King Arthur, is immediate. Our link with the hero Arthur, moreover, is not to a myth but to an actual historical figure who lived in Britain fourteen hundred years ago in times that were, like our own, full of threats. Daily, contemporary society confronts economic turmoil on an international scale, crime that reaches our very neighborhoods, prospects of nuclear destruction that threatens our very existence. No magical sword scabbard, such as that of Arthur's Excalibur, protects us. But we cope much as Arthur's followers did, staging tournaments on football, baseball, and soccer fields of battle, living by a modern code of honor as knights lived by their chivalric ideals, preparing to transfer lessons learned here to the arena of life, seeking to achieve future goals and to realize present aspirations. Dedication and pride in every turn, each salute harkens to knightly custom, its origin the mutual lifting of hel- met visors to reveal identities. In bonds of honor we salute the legendary, the fabled past and the real present, of which modern myths are made. The swor
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1 Ex-cal-i-bur ek-’skal-o-bor n (OF Escalibor, fr. MB Caliburnus) : the legendary sword of King Arthur received from the hands of the l.ady of the Lake, to whom it was returned after Arthur was mortally wounded in the last battle against Mordred. It had a scabbard whose wearer could lose no blood. Some versions of the romance call it “Mirandoise.” There seems, however, to have been also another sword called Excalibur in the early part of the story. This was the sword, plunged deep into a stone, which could be drawn forth only by the man who was to be king. After 200 knights had failed, Arthur drew it out without difficulty. 3Excalibur; title of Camden Military Academy’s yearbook. lEmtltbur Volume 26 1984 CAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY Camden, South Carolina 29020 Phone: 803-432-6001
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