Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
I'm sold, my head canon is now Bismuth from Steven Universe handing King Arthur a sword fit for one of the Crystal Gems
Not jacked. Us smiths are actually kinda lithe. We're strong and have endurance for days, we don't have bulk because that would make our jobs harder.
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If she's a 'Lady' she's an aristocrat, not a commoner.
It makes more sense to think of her as a Queen giving a present to a fellow monarch instead of a smith who happened to come up with a great weapon.
I always figured she was the ruler of the fae who lived in the other dimensional version of England. She wanted peace and harmony in the human realm because conflict would spill over into her possessions.
President Kennedy made a joke that he'd go down in the history books as the man who brought Jackie Kennedy to Paris. We think of the Lady in relation to Arthur because that's the only reference we have. She had a life long before and long after she met him.
What about if she were a God? Because the Celtic God Brigid's domain includes smithing
Edit: just realised the post already mentioned Brigid. I didn't read it properly. But Brigid is really cool — way cooler than the Saint that Christianity superimposed upon Brigid's feast day
We also visualize her emerging from the lake as though she lives at the bottom of it, with the sword fully formed. If she's smithing the sword she needs fire, so does she live next to the lake, or does myth magic allow her to do metalwork underwater?
Once we start applying reality there are a lot of questions. Does she have a full smithing career and trade, or does she only ever make the sword? Because that means that either Excalibur isn't as unique as we were led to believe, or her entire existence is about that one sword handoff, which is somehow more objectifying than thinking of her as some kind of water nymph, slender and graceful or not, who makes or acquires the sword magically, and spends most her time doing mysterious but unrelated magic.
OTOH, maybe she was just taking a bath in the lake she lived beside when Arthur rocked up asking for a kickass sword?
And even now, the quality of the sword is often determined by how much you’re willing to pay for it. It’s possible she just gave him the most expensive, high-quality sword she’d ever made, because as the local king he was the only one who could afford it.
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