Arthur excalibur vulgate

After King Arthur had been brought back to his senses,
he drew his sword from its scabbard, and it cast a great
light, as though two tapers had been lit. This was the sword
he had pulled out of the stone. And the letters that were
written on the sword said that it was named Excalibur—this
is a Hebrew word that means in French “cuts through iron
and steel and wood,”and the inscription told the truth, as
you will hear in the story a little farther along. When the
king had drawn the sword, he struck out into the greatest
part of the throng and hit one knight between the
shoulders so hard that he cut his body in two. The blow was
great, and the good sword cut through the saddle blanket
and sliced through the horse’s backbone from one end to
the other, so that knight and horse fell down into one
heap. Then he struck right and left and stirred up such an
awful fracas that all who saw him were terrified. They did
not dare face up to him, but fled and yielded the ground to
him.

The Vulgate Cycle