Merlin
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Malory's Merlin Narrative
There's not only two narratives. There's this sage Merlin who exists right through the Arthurian world. And so that's the Merlin all the way through, guiding us, helping us. The other Merlin narrative is Merlin sets up King Arthur and then disappears. He enables us to speak politically or militarily on chivalrich ways. We go up to the Tudors now, Peter, for a short time. She may not be prepared for this. John D., the magician at the court of Elizabeth I, and a man of very influential adviser,. an estranged and powerful man. we've talked about him in the program. We did an archiming.
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