Merlin
An ancient magician of Britain, who supposedly
dwelt at the court of
King Arthur. His origin is obscure, but he
was probably an early
Celtic god, who with the passage of time ended
up being regarded as a
great wizard.
There appears to have existed more than just
one Merlin, the welshman
who became a bard of King Arthur (and supposedly
died after a
terrible battle between Britons and their
Romanized compatriots circa
AD 570) and the warlock Merlin Caledonius.
A probability is that both
characters sprung from the same origin or
idea.
In Arthurian legend Merlin was a sorcerer and
counselor of Uther
Pendragon and his son Arthur. It was on Merlin's
advice that Uther
established the Round Table and found his
true heir through the sword-
in-the-stone test.
According to legend, immediately after his
birth, Arthur was given
into the keeping of Merlin, who then took
him to Sir Hector, who
brought the child up as his own son. Later,
Merlin tutored and
prepared the young lad for his future role
as king.
Merlin disappeared forever when Viviane, the
Lady of the Lake, using
magic he taught her, betrayed and imprisoned
him in an enchanted
thorn bush (some say a rock, and others a
tower).
The Arthurian Merlin probably represents an
amalgamation of a Celtic
sky deity and a Welsh or British bard who
lived about AD 500.
According to some legends, Merlin was the
offspring of an unholy
union between an incubus (from whom he inherited
his supernatural
abilities) and an unsuspecting, sleeping human
female
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