After that I remember nothing Ten-year-old Bun Bundle lives with bis parents on the island of Scilly, where the population is only around eighty people.

Thinking about what his father had told him about the grave possibly being around fifteen or sixteen hundred years old, Bun thought to himself this was when King Arthur had lived.

After his parents went to bed, he snuck back downstairs, and found the sword, and started playing with it, and suddenly he realized he could see again, and there standing in the kitchen was an old man with long hair and a beard who introduced himself as Bedevere from the Court of King Arthur, who was sent by the magician Merlin.

The next morning Bun wakes up to find his sight has been restored, the sword and shield are back in the tomb in the field and Anna is totally unaware of the previous night's events.

The grave was discovered by a farmer working in a potato-field at Hillside Farm on Bryher in March 1999, when his tractor wheel sank into the ground and to free it he moved a large stone which revealed the cist.

[5][6] His stepfather had been blind for the last 25 years, and Morpurgo who was understandably distraught over this, decided to "explore it in his fiction; he has always felt free, he says, to air adult anxieties and concerns in his stories for children".

[5] English writer of children's books Tony Bradman said he "found it contrived and a bit of a hotch-potch; the elements of the plot don't really cohere into a viable story".

[7] Anne Johnstone from The Herald wrote that "Morpurgo's books work because, like the best conmen, he takes us inside his narrative and makes us believe it, however unlikely; a blind boy who stumbles on an ancient sword and through it meets King Arthur?

[9] British writer Julia Eccleshare opined that even though "Bun is blinded in a diving accident, he finds peace after a magical encounter with the legendary King Arthur".

She further opined that the author "has woven a story that plays adventurously with narrative, and blurs the line between truth and imagination; in this case its lesson in empathy is focused on understanding what it might be like to be blind, as Bun is".

[14] Anya Ryan from The Guardian, remarked how "the production is an inclusive scrapbook of wonder; there are surtitles, audio explanations built into the narrative and facts about blindness to educate us".