True History of Merlin the Magician
A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was “Merlin the Magician” and his impact on Britain.
Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his “historical” figure and his relation t...
A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was “Merlin the Magician” and his impact on Britain.
Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his “historical” figure and his relation t...
