once the knights of England decided to choose a new king.They knew how to choose their king ... previously they had found a huge stone with a sword which said,"The man who can pull the sword out of the stone will be king"... all the knights tried to pull the sword out of the stone ... it seemed none of them could do it. ... England eventually got a king: Arthur was a young boy at the time,but ... he pulled the sword from the stone. ... Arthur became king