In this Tennyson work, Sir Bedivere is told to "take Excalibur, and fling him far into the middle mere"
When Tennyson's Arthur commands Bedivere to 'take Excalibur, / And fling him 
.... 16 Merlin, here, is apparently working with God as he once had in ... After 
negotiations with Merlin she walks across the lake, without, we are told, even 
getting her feet wet, and ..... 6 Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, ed.