What are excaliburs powers???
Attributes ; The Lady of the Lake offering Arthur the sword Excalibur.In many versions, Excalibur’s blade was engraved with words on opposite sides. On one side were the words “take me up”, and on the other side “cast me away” (or similar words). This prefigures its return into the water. In addition, when Excalibur was first drawn, Arthur’s enemies were blinded by its blade, which was as bright as thirty torches. Excalibur’s scabbard was said to have powers of its own. Injuries from losses of blood, for example, would not kill the bearer. In some tellings, wounds received by one wearing the scabbard did not bleed at all. The scabbard is stolen by Morgan le Fay and thrown into a lake, never to be found again. Nineteenth century poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, described the sword in full Romantic detail in his poem “Morte d’Arthur”, later rewritten as “The Passing of Arthur”, one of the Idylls of the King: There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o’er him, drawing it, the winter moon, B
