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Merlin is best known as the wizar featured in Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a northern madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of Aurelius Ambrosius to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius.

Trivia about merlin

  • Shortly after birth, Arthur was given to this wizard for safekeeping
  • Visiting Cornwall? You'll find this wizard's cave near Tintagel Castle, the legendary site of King Arthur's birth
  • Mary Stewart worked magic in "The Crystal Cave", the first book in her trilogy about this Arthurian wizard
  • King Arthur's conjurer(6)
  • This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her
  • This Cat in a Hat was a sorcerer at that, & taking things farther, he helped King Arthur
  • In "Le Morte D'Arthur", Arthur tells him, I must take a wife but only "by thy counsel and thine advice"
  • Magic has been banned by Uther Pendragon in the Syfy series about this title youthful wizard
  • One legend says that this magician who helped King Arthur used his powers to build Stonehenge
  • T.A. Barron wrote a 5-book epic on this wizard who's a big part of T.H. White's "The Once and Future King"
  • Sam Neill played this whiz of a wizard in a 1998 miniseries
  • In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", his character puts Hank Morgan to sleep for 1,300 years
  • At age 13, Christian Slater was on Broadway portraying a youthful version of this Arthurian wizard
  • In one version of the story, Nimiane, also known as Nimue, imprisons this magician in a tower of air

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