{"id":179945,"date":"2017-09-05T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/05\/meet-the-new-queen-of-cornwall\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:32:00","slug":"meet-the-new-queen-of-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/05\/meet-the-new-queen-of-cornwall\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Queen of Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JvKIWjnEPNY\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Gotta lead with Monty Python<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/awaed1n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/awaed1n.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/g6fuQ6q.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/g6fuQ6q.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/t6Lk6yt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/t6Lk6yt.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SzrwTf3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SzrwTf3.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p>7 Year old Matilda Jones just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4848540\/Schoolgirl-pulls-4ft-sword-Cornish-lake.html\">pulled a great sword from Dozmary Pool in Cornwall<\/a>, which is rumored where King Arthur received, and returned, the sword Excalibur.<\/p>\n<p>If I understand the finer points of of British governance, and I probably don&#8217;t, this means that she is now the ruler of Cornwall:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A seven-year-old school girl had a legendary holiday after pulling a giant four-foot sword from the Cornish Lake where Arthur threw Excalibur.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Matilda Jones was wading through water waist-deep at Dozmary Pool when she stumbled across the blade underwater.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to local folklore, Dozmary Pool is the spot where King Arthur returned Excalibur after being fatally wounded in the Battle of Camlann.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8216;She was only waist deep when she said she could see a sword.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8216;I told her not to be silly and it was probably a bit of fencing, but when I looked down I realised it was a sword. It was just there laying flat on the bottom of the lake.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8216;The sword is 4ft long &#8211; exactly Matilda&#8217;s height.&#8217;  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Legend has it that King Arthur first received Excalibur from the Lady of Lake in Dozmary Pool after rowing out to receive it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After being mortally wounded he asked to be taken there so he could return the sword to her.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After three attempts, his loyal follower Bedivere cast it into the water and the Lady of the Lake&#8217;s arm rose to receive it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you look at the photos, I would argue that the sword is no older than 6 months old.  Otherwise, the leather wrapping would have rotted away.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it appears to be a cheap mass produced sword cut from sheet steel, there is no fuller (center groove), and the quillions (cross guards) appear to be made from rod and welded ball bearings.<\/p>\n<p>Still a Queen of Cornwall wearing pink Crocs?&nbsp; That <b>would<\/b> be truly epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta lead with Monty Python 7 Year old Matilda Jones just pulled a great sword from Dozmary Pool in Cornwall, which is rumored where King Arthur received, and returned, the sword Excalibur. If I understand the finer points of of British governance, and I probably don&#8217;t, this means that she is now the ruler of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[547,371,527,418,401,421],"class_list":["post-179945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-europe","tag-junk-science","tag-photographs","tag-video","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}