Merlin (wizard)

Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys; also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in accounts of Arthur of Britain starting with Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Other accounts describe a far different Merlin.

Related Topics:
Welsh - Wizard - Arthur of Britain - Geoffrey of Monmouth's - Historia Regum Britanniae

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Indeed some texts clearly distinguish two different figures named Merlin. For example the Welsh Triads state there were three baptisimal bards: Taliesin, Chief of Bards, Myrddin Wyllt, and Myrddin Emrys. If these two bards called Myrddin were originally variants of the same figure their stories have become so different in the earliest texts that we have about them that they are best treated as separate characters, even though similar incidents are ascribed to both.

Related Topics:
Welsh Triads - Taliesin - Bards - Myrddin Wyllt - Myrddin Emrys

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