New Book Claims Merlin Had Scottish Roots

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-28-2007 | David Sapsted

[Charles Martel]

“Orlando Furioso” is pretty good... It tells a set of stories about the period of Charlemagne and the driving of the Muslims from France and Europe.

My kind of bedtime stories... ;^)

[xJones]

Anyone for battle bread? I’ve got some Ironcrusts(R)-”the toast with the most.”

I'll see your Ironcrust and raise you a fruitcake. Have you ever tried one of those from Corsicana? They're in the mini-Daisy Cutter class.

[Grizzled Bear]

Nah, that was the Stone of Scone, the namesake of all those tasteless Scottish pastries.

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Quit yer whinging and eat yer Haggis!

[blam]

"It's noteworthy that the writer has Merlin being born the year the world ended ~ 541 AD."

A lot of mysteries from this period.

[FreeManWhoCan]

The best Merlin ever was Nicol Williamson from Excalibur. Case closed.

[Professional Engineer]

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[who_would_fardels_bear]

There are some who call me ... Tim.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[what's up]

I preferred Sam Neill as Merlin.

[coconutt2000]

Merlin... Hmm.... I haven’t gone by that name in a few centuries...

And I’m definitely not Scottish!

[Rembrandt]

Merlin is from Gilead, not was, is - he’s still around and is an operative in the Dimocrat Pahty.

[norton]

"next you’ll tell me harry potter is australian!"

You're thinking of his cousin Bruce.

[xzins]

We talk about this, and, voila, the next day, here comes a Merlin article.

prescience is such a burden.

:>)

[reformed_democrat]

It's noteworthy that the writer has Merlin being born the year the world ended ~ 541 AD.

Please elaborate. I love reading history with drama, and I've learned more from the FR threads (yours, blam's, SunkenCiv's) than I ever did in college.

So was 541 the year the Dark Ages began?

[dfwgator]

"Get your haggis, right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep's stomach! Tastes as good as it sounds. Good for what ails ya!"

[Alouette]

So was 541 the year the Dark Ages began?

I think it was 614, the year Mohammed was born.

[muawiyah]

I think they’ve got it down to April 21 of that year in fact.

[muawiyah]

In 541 AD vast areas of Western Europe were NOT CHRISTIAN.

[muawiyah]

I think Russia wasn’t initially Christianized in 988AD, and that was just the big dogs. The definitive book on the Volga River Vikings suggests the old ways were still in place right up to the 1700s when it came to Thor worship.

[muawiyah]

Hardly ~ the existence of the Dark Ages probably made it possible for Mo to be born and then not die within a couple of months of some sort of plague.

Mecca was quite isolated at that time ~ a "backwater", so to speak.