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[13] [14] In his Myrdhinn, ou l'Enchanteur Merlin (1862), La Villemarqué derived Marz[h]in, which he considered the original form of Merlin's name, from the Breton word marz (wonder) to mean 'wonder man'. [15] Clas Myrddin or Merlin's Enclosure is an early name for Great Britain as stated in the third series of Welsh Triads. [16]
Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, ... c. 1155) was a churchman and writer of uncertain ancestry (Welsh, Breton and Norman have all been suggested) ...
The earliest (pre-12th century) Welsh poems about the Myrddin legend present him as a madman living an existence in the Caledonian Forest.He was born in 540. [citation needed] In the forest he ruminates on his former existence and the events of the Battle of Arfderydd, where Riderch Hael, King of Alt Clut (Strathclyde) slaughtered the forces of Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio, and Myrddin went mad ...
Uther Pendragon by W. H. Margetson (1914). In Welsh Arthurian pre-Galfridian tradition, meaning from before the time of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), Arthur was granted numerous relations and family members.
The Prophetiae is the work that introduced the character of Merlin (Merlinus), as he later appears in Arthurian legend.He mixes pagan and Christian elements. [4] In this work Geoffrey drew from the established bardic tradition of prophetic writing attributed to the sage Myrddin, though his knowledge of Myrddin's story at this stage in his career appears to have been slight.
Born as Jan Wasylewski and reared in New York City.Merlin was of Polish American descent with ancestry in Poland.He attended the Grace Church School for Boys and later the renowned premier academic Stuyvesant High School in New York City, before dropping out to join the United States Navy, serving as a Torpedoman, during World War II. [2]
Gwenddydd (1891), a drypoint engraving by Sir Hubert von Herkomer. Gwenddydd, also known as Gwendydd and Ganieda, is a character from Welsh legend.She first appears in the early Welsh poems like the Dialogue of Myrddin and Gwenddydd and in the 12th-century Latin Vita Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth, where she is represented as being a figure in the Old North of Britain, the sister of Myrddin ...
Merlin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Merlin (1931–2015), French economist and vice-president of the "Presaje" institute; Alessandra Merlin (born 1975), retired Italian alpine skier; Alfred Merlin (1876–1965), French historian and archaeologist; André Merlin (1911–1960), French tennis player