England Has A New 7 Year Old Queen: Thanks, Excalibur!!!

[Basement Cat]

Long live Queen Matilda! ^_^


It rarely gets any more charming than this.

A seven year old girl found a sword while swimming in the Dozmary Pool in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall where the legendary King Arthur's sword Excalibur was said to have been tossed.

Bravo, Most Noble Lass!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sword-found-in-excalibur-lake_us_59ae946ee4b0b5e53100b997

I hope everyone joins me in wishing our new Great Queen all the best hopes![footnote]I'm American and I'm totally for this young lass![/footnote]

Editor's Choice: Oh, yes, the sword she found was totally authentic!

 

[Saelune]

She has to slay the dragon occupying the throne first though, and her army of swans.

 

[FalloutJack]

That is awesome. Long live the...really young queen!

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Aw, that's adorable.

Now she just needs to gather 12 noble knights to her and seat them around her round table for the most virtuous tea parties ever!

That is awesome. Long live the...really young queen!

Meh, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was only 6 days old when she became queen. This girl is ancient by comparison.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Ah, so that's why there wasn't a clear plan for Brexit, they were waiting for this?

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Boot the old hag off her throne, we could do with some youthful energy for once! What, with Queenie hobbling around at 0.2 km/h, fueled now only by an ancient incurable gypsy curse, and T.May floating about a centimetre off the ground, consuming any soul too weak to resist the deathly darkness she has become a conduit for.

 

[Saelune]

Boot the old hag off her throne, we could do with some youthful energy for once! What, with Queenie hobbling around at 0.2 km/h, fueled now only by an ancient incurable gypsy curse, and T.May floating about a centimetre off the ground, consuming any soul too weak to resist the deathly darkness she has become a conduit for.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Not a bad looking blade either. Nicely spotted young lady, that'll go nice next to the posters in your room

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I mean I trust a 7-year-old given divine mandate via old pond sword way more than I trust Theresa May or any other Tory to rule in a decent, competent and informed manner at this point.

 

[the December King]

She looks sooo excited! That's awesome.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

Technically, that sword means she's only the Queen of Wales and Cornwall, as Arthur was king of the Britons (in the modern day, Welsh), not the English. I don't know to what degree the English and Welsh intermingled, although it appears that with England conquered Wales they were given enough autonomy to remain culturally unique, at least.

Still, good for her for finding a sword in the lake!

 

[Terminal Blue]

Yeah, whatever.. given the state and general evilness of the current government, I'm all for letting a 7 year old rule. Plus, she'll have the same mental age as the president of the US so they can bond over cbeebies or whatever.

Technically, that sword means she's only the Queen of Wales and Cornwall, as Arthur was king of the Britons (in the modern day, Welsh), not the English.

The Britons were people who spoke Brittonic languages. Under the Romans this became the dominant language group of the Roman-occupied regions, meaning it was by far the most widespread. The other two language groups in Britain were Pictish languages, spoken in Northern scotland, and Goidelic languages, spoken in Ireland and parts of Western Scotland.

However, once the Romans left Britain Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons Jutes, who would ultimately develop a shared culture and become Anglo-Saxons) started to move in, conquering or displacing Romano-British (Brittonic) peoples. Germanic languages became dominant in the regions conquered by the Anglo-Saxons, and eventually conquered Britons assimilated into Anglo-Saxon society. So yes, the modern country of England (the land of the Angles) is an Anglo-Saxon concept, and not the same thing as king Arthur's Britons.

So yeah, on one hand the Welsh and Cornish languages are the only surviving Brittonic languages in the UK, but on the other hand intermarriage in the Anglo-Saxon period means English people are still genetically descended from Brittonic people. There are some genetic markers which are found more in different parts of the UK, but at this point we're all basically the same. There are a few linguistic and cultural holdovers in English as well, like that we still call the islands as a whole 'Britain' (Prydain or Prydein).

 

[SupahEwok]

...am I the only one alarmed at there being sharp objects in a lake children swim in?

 

[gigastar]

...am I the only one alarmed at there being sharp objects in a lake children swim in?

In London we still dig up unexploded bombs dropped during the Blitzkrieg.

So we are kinda used to finding random shit in places they shouldnt be.

 

[Ravenbom]

I don't think it's 20-30 years old like the dad claims, maybe an old movie prop, but I think the leather wrap would have rotted away in 20-30 years as well as accrue more rust.
Though it does look a bit like the sword the Black Knight used in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's not, but it would be fun if someone could match the sword to a certain TV/movie production.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

...am I the only one alarmed at there being sharp objects in a lake children swim in?

That ain't sharp, dude. Try frolicked in Glasgow...

 

[Mechamorph]

All hail Queen Matilda, the Once and Future Queen of the Britons, wielder of Excalibur and probably photoshop subject for Saber cosplayers.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

As long as she doesn't has a cousin called Stephen who doesn't get along with her. We don't want this shit getting recursive...

 

[SupahEwok]

...am I the only one alarmed at there being sharp objects in a lake children swim in?

That ain't sharp, dude. Try frolicked in Glasgow...

It's sharp with tetanus...