Merlin is a Scot, eh...alright, I can go along with that.
If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap.
Nah, that was the Stone of Scone, the namesake of all those tasteless Scottish pastries.
Not news to me. I've known it since I was a wee bairn.
His chronology is subject to some argument since it is difficult to place the Battle of Badon after 499 (most likely around 495) and thus also difficult to place Arthur's final termination much later than 515.
On the other hand, Merlin may have been a later Arthurian figure in Arthur's second period and have then survivied Arthur's death by some extended period. I haven't read Ms. Goodrich's books in some time and have forgotten where she put him on the time line.
And the fact that these people were based north of the wall does not preclude them from having significant action in England where the enemy (the Saxon's) were located. Most of the serious students view Arthur as a calvery military officer who was able to take the military action to the enemy everywhere on the island that he found them.
Of course I’ll have another Scotch! What do ya mean that wasn’t what we were discussing? Oh! Never mind....
I am under the impression that in the 6th century all Scots lived in Scotia (Ireland), and only entered Great Britain by way of Dalriada at the end of the first millennium AD. In the 6th Century what is now Scotland was inhabited by northern Britons (Welsh), and Picts.
Quite a few books, legends, poems and stories abound about Merlin and the Arthurian legends. Not all of them from the British Isles. “Orlando Furioso” is pretty good, Merlin, Mordred and Morgan Le Fey all show up several times in it, as well as mention of Arthur and various knights. It tells a set of stories about the period of Charlemagne and the driving of the Muslims from France and Europe.
I was amazed that the scope of the tales take in everything from Arthus’s Court to the Emperor of Cathay.
Quite a few books, legends, poems and stories abound about Merlin and the Arthurian legends. Not all of them from the British Isles. “Orlando Furioso” is pretty good, Merlin, Mordred and Morgan Le Fey all show up several times in it, as well as mention of Arthur and various knights. It tells a set of stories about the period of Charlemagne and the driving of the Muslims from France and Europe.
I was amazed that the scope of the tales take in everything from Arthus’s Court to the Emperor of Cathay.
Boadica also had such a surname. Translated in that long dead language her name means Queen Arthur!. This goes a long way toward explaining why (s)he didn't get so upset over a noble knight tending to the wife's needs.
This flips right off the planet into a recent story that in the early Middle Ages (a Dark Age thing) it was common throughout Europe for same-sex marriage to be recognized.
It's noteworthy that the writer has Merlin being born the year the world ended ~ 541 AD.
next you’ll tell me harry potter is australian!
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Merlin... Hmm.... I haven’t gone by that name in a few centuries...
And I’m definitely not Scottish!
Merlin is from Gilead, not was, is - he’s still around and is an operative in the Dimocrat Pahty.
We talk about this, and, voila, the next day, here comes a Merlin article.
prescience is such a burden.
:>)
Makes sense. Isn’t that where Hogwarts is located?