Matter of Britain Figure
Merlin / Myrddin
- Summary
- Geoffrey fuses the Welsh wild-man prophet Myrddin with the fatherless boy Ambrosius from the Historia Brittonum, then gives him the Prophetiae Merlini. Robert de Boron makes him the devil's son redirected to God's purpose, which is where the birth-narrative and the tutelage of Arthur come from.
- Kind
- legendary
- Floruit
- literary, from 1130s
Worldviews
Geoffrey's Pseudohistory, The Grail Made Christian, Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall, Revival, Screen and Afterlife
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research plus Boron holdings
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH