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Arthurian and Merlin Traditions

Welsh, British, Merlin, and Arthurian legendary materials that belong to Celtic and British transmission rather than English literature alone.

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The Vita Merlini — Geoffrey of MonmouthThe Vita Merlini (Life of Merlin) by Geoffrey of Monmouth, c. 1150 — a Latin poem on the life of the prophet and wizard Merlin, his madness in the forest after the battle of Arfderydd, his cosmological visions, his dialogue with Taliesin, and his final retirement to the Observatory of Seventy Doors; translated by John Jay Parry (1925).