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Magic Monday
Oct. 13th, 2019 11:58 pm
It's a little past midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is of Merlin Ambrosius recounting his exploits to his teacher and chronicler Bleys. We don't know a lot about Merlin, but a couple of very early Welsh books preserve several poems that are credited to him, and there's at least as much evidence that he was an actual person as there is for most figures in western Europe in the darkest parts of the Dark Ages. His dates are a little uncertain; one set of accounts has him born in southern Wales around 450, another places him in southern Scotland as a mature man at the time of the battle of Arderydd in 573. Yes, there may well have been two men with the same first name -- Moridunos, "he of the sea-fortress," in Old Brythonic, which works out to Myrddin in modern Welsh and Merlin in modern English. (Some of my readers will already be aware that there's a reason I've featured Merlin and Bleys as the poster children for this week's Magic Monday...)
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