bedwere

Updated: May 19, 2025

The episode which lends its name to the whole romance, the death of Arthur, is most impressively told, and Tennyson has followed Malory's narrative closely, even to such details of the scene as the little chapel by the sea, the moonlight, and the answer which Sir Bedwere made the wounded king, when bidden to throw Excalibur into the water, "'What saw thou there? said the king.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson