Marlborough Mound: 'Merlin's burial place' built in 2400 BC

BBC ^ | May 31, 2011 | Unknown

[doberville]

T’is Welsh!

[Overtaxed]

I thought Merlin “youthened.”

[The Cajun]

Thought this was the guy buried in the Marlboro Mound.

Oh Marlborough........Never mind.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Mr. K]

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some
farcical aquatic ceremony

...I mean, if I went around sayin’ I was an empereror just
because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d lock me up

[muawiyah]

King Arthur is, of course, someone who is necessarily referred to as "DIC" and "AD" since all these guys spoke the same "now extinct" British tongue. It all has to happen BEFORE 535AD as well.

Boudicca has all the necessary elements, in feminine gender. Oh, and she has the honorific of "BO" preceding it all. So, it's like Mr.Miss.Mrs King/Queen Arthur/Artorius.

Which may not answer all your questions but it does explain why Arthur wasn't sleeping with Guinnevere.

The Galician documents (in Spain) look back to an even earlier period (700 BC) and avoid all the adventures of the same ruling dynasty in Britain and Brittany.

[ElkGroveDan]

it was easy enough for folks from Britain to get around (presumably on horses).

Nah... they were banging coconuts together.

[Oztrich Boy]

As punishment for John’s usurpment of the British throne, the Catholic Church placed an interdict on England.

Nonsense it was a power dispute between John and the megalomanic Lotario dei Conti di Segni. It was custom the the Archbishop of Canturbury was chosen by the English. Innocent III pulled a fast one.

Restoring Arthur to the throne would mean that the English would be ruled by a guy six years dead.

the chalice, which, according to Catholic doctrine would bestow eternal life on those who did so worthily.

Is that from the Holy Document of Vatican Law?

[muawiyah]

Well, that too.

[wolfman23601]

Merlin was not a wizard, he was a druid. He didn’t become a wizard until Hollywood got a hold of him.

[Flag_This]

"Merlin was not a wizard, he was a druid. "

"In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, lived a strange race of people... the druids. No one knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge."

[dangus]

I have no idea what you are talking about, but my point was that the French conflated a much more recent person with an older British legend.

[dangus]

There’s nothing to indicate Merlin was a druid at all. Now, if you ask any new ager: wizard = wiccan = druid. The truth, however, is that “The Order of Melchizadek” is an ancient name for the Catholic/Orthodox priesthood.

[Oztrich Boy]

Merlin was not a wizard, he was a druid

He was just a nutzo New Ager living in the woods

[muawiyah]

That may well be the case when it comes to more recent dramatic ripoffs of the original story. Still, no one is saying that the Merlin of the 6th century is anyone other than the Merlin of the 6th century ~ and he shows up in France, Brittany and Britain.

The characters in the Anglo Saxon stories are dramatic representations of the earlier British tales (which were kept perfect and sacred in their Welsh principalities for hundreds of years after the disasters to the East).

[dangus]

>> Still, no one is saying that the Merlin of the 6th century is anyone other than the Merlin of the 6th century ~ and he shows up in France, Brittany and Britain. <<

Largely, not disagreeing. But “Merlin’” real name was, to largest extent, Ambrosius Aurenlianus, a person Geoffrey of Monmouth conflated with Merddyn Wyllt. Merddyn certainly is a real person, but the Arthurian legend stuff comes from Ambrosius.

[muawiyah]

Oh, that conflation ~ sure, even the annals conflate personages so you have an "Arthur" or "Ad" showing up made up of someone who was First Century, someone else who was Third Century and at last, someone who was there when the Great Climate catastrophe happened circa 535/541 AD.

I think that has to do with some missing pages ~ which is one of the great things about the Annals ~ you get to make up so much of it if you really want to.

Even the Round Table is probably an import having arrived with foreign conscripts from the Caucusus in maybe the Second Century ~ it's their story, not that of the Brits, but it sounds so good ~ so exotic ~ and the Brits might well have done something like that except they were divided up into dozens of little principalities barely eking out a life.

Once I found Merlin leading the march into Brittainy, that was it for me even bothering with Ad.

BTW, the only thing I found of genealogical interest to me was when Ad gave away the family estates to the Saxons ~ which is one of the reasons folks moved to Brittany (besides it being devoid of people, cats, dogs, birds, insects ~ the anomaly had been really rugged in that part).

[pabianice]

Man, do I miss "SG-1." Have the entire series (210 episodes) and have rewatched it several times. It is head, shoulders, waist, and knees above any other SF series now on TV. Unfortunately, another SG-1 movie ("Stargate: Revolution") has been mothballed. 8*(

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I just picked up Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. Found them used at Newbury Comics for 10-14 dollars for each season. Mint condition. A good deal. I'll get more as they come available.

I still watch the original film with Kurt Russell whenever it's on. Ya just gotta watch.

[SunkenCiv]

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