Merlin
In Our Time
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The Legend of Merlin
The Welsh poets thought of Merlin as one of their old bards, one of the Hengar. They really thought he existed. And it's very interesting that this legend locates it around our historical battle in what was known as the Old North. This is... The battles in 573. Now we can't say whether a historical character Merlin was there, but it's very, very interesting because in some of the later poetry there are bits which sound like the sort of thing that a real bard, real heroic bard would say about his dead lord.
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