| | | Great programme as so many of you will be aware but such a joy today, particularly. Seeing Merlin again as an historical figure, representing huge things in our Celtic backdrop, and dissecting the Christian and Saxon overlays.
I didn't know, for instance, that Geoffrey of Monmouth is responsible for changing Myrddin (so named in tune with his Carmarthen roots) to Merlin, with that L because Geoffrey was worried the name would sound too like the French Merde. |
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