Merlin
Created | Updated May 19, 2008
Merlin is the wizard from the King Arthur legends. Originally invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the somethingth Century he was probably based on Myrddhin Wyllt, a welsh bard who reportedly went mad after seeing his lord killed in battle. He supposed to be a prophet this Myrddhin and is said to have gone to a saint and asked to be baptized because soon he was going to die a triple death. Lo and behold later in the day or the next day he was first stabbed then thrown into a river where he was pronged by a large stick.
He was also probably based on another Myrddhin who's also called merlinus Ambrosius. This particular part of merlin was stolen almost completely from Nennius's book Historia Britonum I believe.
His name changed from Myrddhin to Merdin but is thought to have changed to Merlin because of the resemblance to the word Merda meaning manure.
The principal three stories concerning merlin are Vortigern's Tower (stolen from nennius's book again), tThe Giant's Dance and the Birth of Arthur, which of course details the birth of King Arthur, later to become the greatest king Britain had ever seen. The king who was to drive back the Saxon hordes further than either his father Uther/a Pendragon or his father's brother Ambrosius Aurelius had done.
Merlin has been represented in a number of stories since, mostly to do with Arthur. Merlin was supposed to have been born of a mortal mother impregnated by an incubus or in another version born of a virgin impregnated by the devil. She was supposed to have gone to her confessor Blaise and told him or her I can't remember and they made sure Merlin was baptized right after he born so that the devil was cast from him. He already had the power to be able to see more in the past an present and was given the ability to see the future as a gift from God.
He was advisor to Ambrosius and then Uther and then Arthur. At the appointed time he left with Nimue/Ninive the Lady of the Lake with whom he was in love. He taught her his magic and then when he had taught her all he could she sent him into eternal sleep under a Hawthorn tree to wake when the time came for Arthur to save Britain from evil again.
He was also probably based on another Myrddhin who's also called merlinus Ambrosius. This particular part of merlin was stolen almost completely from Nennius's book Historia Britonum I believe.
His name changed from Myrddhin to Merdin but is thought to have changed to Merlin because of the resemblance to the word Merda meaning manure.
The principal three stories concerning merlin are Vortigern's Tower (stolen from nennius's book again), tThe Giant's Dance and the Birth of Arthur, which of course details the birth of King Arthur, later to become the greatest king Britain had ever seen. The king who was to drive back the Saxon hordes further than either his father Uther/a Pendragon or his father's brother Ambrosius Aurelius had done.
Merlin has been represented in a number of stories since, mostly to do with Arthur. Merlin was supposed to have been born of a mortal mother impregnated by an incubus or in another version born of a virgin impregnated by the devil. She was supposed to have gone to her confessor Blaise and told him or her I can't remember and they made sure Merlin was baptized right after he born so that the devil was cast from him. He already had the power to be able to see more in the past an present and was given the ability to see the future as a gift from God.
He was advisor to Ambrosius and then Uther and then Arthur. At the appointed time he left with Nimue/Ninive the Lady of the Lake with whom he was in love. He taught her his magic and then when he had taught her all he could she sent him into eternal sleep under a Hawthorn tree to wake when the time came for Arthur to save Britain from evil again.
