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Merlin

In Our Time

CHAPTER

The Threefold Death

In some Celtic versions, it is actually Merlin who suffers the threefold death. We keep being arrested, I do anyway, in reading for this programme, by specific anecdotes. For instance, where Merlin meets his sister, Gagneda, and laughs at her because she has leaves in her hair. And he says you'd be making love to her underneath a tree, which has been scattered with leaves. Can you tell us about that? Yes, she attempts revenge, doesn't she? You can tell she's his sister, she's no fool. She brings in a young boy and says, all right, predict his death. He says, he will die by forming from a rock

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