> This seems pretty straight-forward, unless there's something
> about this question that I'm missing.
>
> "a final" means the same thing as "one final"; it is a slightly
> emphatic expression and means the same thing as "a last" or "one
> last."  So your sentence implies something like this:  He shot a
> bunch of arrows.  And then he shot one more, the last one.
>
The whole sentence looked like: ....In his dying moment he shot a final
arrow from his famous bow and asked Little John to burry him where the
arrow landed.....
 
Thanks for your explanation.
 
Good luck in New Year.
 
rasto