Summary of Tim Clarkson's Scotland's Merlin

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#1 The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae introduced him in this form.

#2 The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae introduced him in this form.

#3 The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae introduced him in this form.

#4 The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae introduced him in this form.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031195

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

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#1

The traditional image of Merlin as the great wizard of Arthurian legend can be traced back to the twelfth century when he appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae.

#2

Geoffrey’s book, Prophetiae Merlini, was a popular source of pseudo-history that was widely disseminated in medieval Europe. It was received well by the literate circles of the day, and its impact on later Arthurian romances was significant.

#3

The French poet Robert de Boron used Wace’s Merlin for his own narrative poem Merlin, the second part of a verse trilogy on the legend of the Holy Grail, which was written around the year 1200. The poem tells of how the sacred cup that once held Christ’s blood was brought by Joseph of Arimathea to the Vales of Avalon.

#4

The Vulgate Cycle, a major prose collection of Arthurian romance, was compiled in the early thirteenth century by one or more anonymous authors. The Merlin story had a different ending in these two texts. They introduced a new female character, the wily maiden Viviane, with whom the wizard fell in love.

#5

The Life of Merlin is a narrative poem that was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century. It cast Merlin in a different light than the prophet and sorcerer in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae.

#6

The story of Merlin the Briton is similar to that of HRB. He was a king and prophet who served the leaders of Demetia, the kingdom of Dyfed in South Wales. However, the focus soon moved northward, to a war