Merlin
In Our Time
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The Wild Man in Celtic
The wild man is quite interesting because the wild man, particularly in Celtic, very often goes mad during a battle. He has some sort of traumatic experience and he's driven out into the wild. But rather like the Hermit's, he kind of lives in the woods and he prophesies, he has things to say. The element that comes there too is that he saw his friends or his king or some one or other very close to him, killed in the... Something from the mountains. So you think that enough in 9th and 573, do you think there's enough to say, well yes he could have been there? And because there's other names here and they become one
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