Uthur Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death, Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of ...

And it makes sense: Excalibur is the sword in The Sword in the Stone ... The parks used to do a little show everyday where Merlin would choose several people from a crowd to test their might ...

In fact, Malory presents Merlin as directly telling Arthur ... Arthur received a new sword. This second Excalibur was given ...