The sword of Sir Launcelot of the Lake. (See Sword.)
“It is the sword of a good knight,
Though homespun was his mail,
What matter if it be not hight,
Joyeuse, Colaʹda, Durindale,
Excalibar, or Aroundight?”
Longfellow.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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