Hi, readers! Today I’m going to talk
about wizardry and magic in the Medieval Age but first of all, I’m going to
talk about “Merlin, the magician”. Maybe some of you know about this character
from the King Arthur’s story or from the Disney movie “The Sword in the Stone”
but, the real fact is that there is no evidence that this character existed. It
is said that Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was a Welsh cleric, was the man who
created Merlin when he wrote “Historia Regum Britanniae” and it is also said
that Merlin’s character came from Myrddin, a bard that was mentioned in several
welsh poems (castles.me.uk). Merlin is known as the magician or wizard that
protects to the king Arthur and the Holy Grail, which is the cup that can cure illness
and saved Arthur from death. It is said that there was a time when Great
Britain started to fall in anarchy when there the collapse of the Roman Empire
was taking place so, Anglo-Saxons from Denmark and Germany tried to invade the
UK but Merlin was the one who stopped this (grahamphillips.net).
With the information that I showed
above, we can see that the topics related to wizardry and magic during the Medieval
Ages was very important. The presence of possible wizards is not just the
evidence of this relevance, also during this period the society started to
create legends about extraordinary creatures, for example: dragons. All this
mixture of castles, wizards, dragons, kings, and knights or this combination
between real facts and fiction make this period unique and different from
others, that’s why I invite you to find more about this period (: If you have
doubts or if you want an special topic for the next post, leave a comment and I
will investigate about it. See you next week!
*For more information, watch works cited (:
Works Cited
Alchin, L.K. "Merlin
the Wizard." 20 July 2005. Castles.
20 October 2011 <http://www.castles.me.uk/merlin-the-wizard.htm>.
Philips, Graham.
"Merlin - The Man behind the Myth." n.d. The Official Graham Phillips Website. 20 October 2011 <http://www.grahamphillips.net/Merlin/merlin2.htm>.
Nice :) You know, I love "The Sword and the Stone" so that movie was the first time I heard about the magician Merlin... However, then I read "The Knight in Rusty Armor" where this character is also mentioned. That's when I found out it wasn't only a character from a movie, but a legendary character. It’s pretty interesting how he has a story of his own (actually Ovi is writing about this too in his blog) and even though it seems really fictitious, perhaps it was all based on true events. Well, I’ll go now to visit Ovi’s blog and continue learning about Merlin lol. Keep up the good work :)
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