Historia Regum Britanniae
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De gestis Britonum, commonly known as Historia regum Britanniae, is a fictitious account of British history written around 1136 by the Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the
Illumination from a 15th-century manuscript of Historia regum Britanniae showing Vortigern and Ambros watching the fight between two dragons.
Merlin
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Merlin is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a prophet and a magician, along with several other main roles. The familiar depiction of Merlin, based o
The Enchanter Merlin, Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)
A male merle, the bird whose name may have inspired that of Merlin
The young Merlin reading his prophecies to King Vortigern in an illustration for Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetiae Merlini (British Library MS Cotton Claudius B VII f.224, c. 1250).
Giants help the young Merlin build Stonehenge in an illustration for a circa 1325—1350 manuscript of Wace's Roman de Brut, an expanded adaptation of Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae.