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It was not Arthur's hand. It was Freya's. This was confirmed A LONG time ago. It looks like a man's hand because they used a male stunt guy for that scene, not because it's ARTHUR.

Also, think of this.

The episode was written by Julian Jones, the ONLY one to feature Freya in any of his storylines. Merlin's expression did NOT suggest he was seeing Arthur's hand; watch his face, it looks resigned, like he knows it's Freya because he's seen her hand come out of there once before, to give him Excalibur in the first place, not overjoyed like he's realizing Arthur's actually still alive under the lake. The dragon said Arthur will rise again in Albion's time of need, not Arthur will rise again and grab his sword in the next five minutes.

I also find it hard to believe Merlin would have been staring at Arthur's dead body in the boat, weeping, if the hand was Arthur's. He would have been more preoccupied with the hand.

Clearly it could only have been Freya, no matter how masculine the hand looked.