Excalibur

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were the duties of
young men who served their knights by preparing their armor and weaponry.
During some of the jousting scenes squires retrieve jousts and pass them over to
their knights, but never really assist in combat. Just from the experience and
duties as a squire, it is typical that a young squire may eventually become a
knight. However, in the movie during an Easter afternoon the knights are
jousting for the right to attempt to draw the sword from the stone, and young
Arthur forgets his brother's sword. So young Arthur runs back to the camp to
retrieve it and finds it has been stolen. He chases after the peasant thief
into the woods but the thief gets away. Arthur then turns and faces the sword
in the stone and unintentionally draws the sword from the stone and he becomes
king. If Arthur had not been the pre-chosen king, he probably would have grown
up as an ordinary squire and then eventually become knighted.
Later in the movie when Arthur is an admirable ...

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