This book report is on the novel Sword of the Rightful King, written by Jane Yolen. The book is about the newly crowned King Arthur, who rules the kingdom, but not the people's hearts. If he fails to prove his worth. his power will always be in question. Too many want him dead, and treachery is everywhere. So the warlock Merlinnus secretley creates a test for Arthur... A sword in a stone is founded-a stone …
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…against the high altar, a great stone four square, like unto marble stone; and in the midst thereof was like an anvil of steel a foot on high, and therein stuck a fair sword naked by the point, and letters there were written in gold about the sword that saiden thus:- Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England. -Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur