Myrddin Wyllt
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Myrddin Wyllt is a figure in medieval Welsh legend. In Middle Welsh poetry he is accounted a chief bard, the speaker of several poems in The Black Book of Carmarthen and The Red Book of Hergest.
Myrddin and St. Kentigern (Stobo Kirk, Scotland)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Geoffrey of Monmouth was a Christian cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
Myrddin Wyllt
…of Welsh legend was originally unconnected to King Arthur in earlier Welsh tradition, Myrddin was reinvented as Merlin, Arthurian court magician, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Myrddin became indistinguishable with Merlin in later Welsh literature. Although Geoffrey considered the Merlin of his Historia Regum Britanniae…
Statue of Geoffrey at the Old Station Tintern in Monmouthshire