[TheWriter]

Dear Blam:

Later legend surrounding King Richard suggests that on March 7, 1192(?), he gifted the legendary sword Excalibur to King Tancred of Leece, thus prompting some of the uprisings against him while he fought in Europe.

(Positive of the date, but not the year. It was just a few years prior to his death from an arrow wound near his heart).

[rightofrush]

The lady of the Lake part of the legend is Druidic. Watery sites were considered sacred, as in wishing wells.