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Clas Myrddin or Merlin's Enclosure is an early name for Great Britain as stated in the third series of Welsh Triads. [16] Celticist Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman suggested that the Welsh name Myrddin (Welsh pronunciation:) was derived from the toponym Caerfyrddin, the Welsh name for the town known in English as Carmarthen. [17]
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 ...
As a wild man and seer living in the forests of what is now southern Scotland, Lailoken is often identified with Myrddin Wyllt, the Welsh forerunner of the Arthurian wizard Merlin. [3] [4] [5] Myrddin is particularly associated with the Battle of Arfderydd in Cumberland (now Cumbria) and the area just to the north, over the border in modern ...
Cyr Myrddin, the Coming of Age of Merlin (1979) by Michael de Angelo is the story of the early life of Merlin as he searches for his destiny. [ 22 ] Merlin, called Aurelianus, is a character in Tim Powers' novel The Drawing of the Dark (1979), which describes the reincarnation of King Arthur as an Irishman named Brian Duffy leading the forces ...
Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a Latin poem in 1,529 hexameter lines [1] ... ("The Conversations of Myrddin and his Sister Gwenddydd") consists mainly of ...
The protagonist of this story is a boy named Myrddin Emrys, also known as Merlin, which is the Welsh form of the word "falcon". (Welsh dd is pronounced th as in thus, so Myrddin is roughly pronounced Murthin.) This story is told in first-person narrative and includes his journey to find a home as he travels through Wales, Brittany, England and ...
The name "Carmarthen" is the anglicised form of the Welsh name for the town, 'Caerfyrddin', which means "Merlin's fortress" ("Caer"-Fortress, "Myrddin"-Merlin). There are many places surrounding Carmarthen with names associating it with Merlin, such as Bryn Myrddin, "Merlin's Hill".
Of greater interest are the poems which draw on traditions relating to the Welsh heroes associated with the Hen Ogledd (Old North, i.e. Cumbria and the surrounding area), and especially those connected with the legend of Arthur and Myrddin, known in later non-Welsh tradition as Merlin, thus predating the descriptions of Merlin by Geoffrey of ...