User blog comment:-Chloe-/Merlin's Story/@comment-4814726-20120916162607

OK, this is my interpretation.

The sword, the yet to be dubbed Excalibur(doesn't anyone else find that annoying how they never actually named the sword? like how they never ever called merlin a wizard but refer to him as a wizrd in their summaries of the episodes and articles?) is NOT Bruta's sword. But Arthur IS related to him.

Because I made the interpretation that Uther took BACK the kingdom. He was the rightful heir, but he had to re-take it from some other king or maybe it was another rightful heir, but who basically sucked as a king. Could've been Vortigern.

The part about the sword is false. BUT the part about the ancestry is true, otherwise Arthur would've wuestioned it. He told Merlin that every child in Camelot knew the story.

that episode was really dumb, i only rewatch SCENES in Merlin because the episodes as a whole physically hurt my brain with how badly they're put together. There are about 50 plotholes in that episode alone. Within the whole series, there are about 900. (note: Hyperbole again)