Ian Weir wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>> Well, in the mainstream version, Merlin is the result of Hell's failed
>> attempt to create the Antichrist.
>>
>
> Hi, John--
>
> I never knew that -- thanks for the intriguing information. Just a
> pedantic question: when you say "mainstream version," which source
> material do you mean? The Suite du Merlin?
Robert de Borron, the Vulgate, Post-Vulgate.... I would normally be
including Malory when I say "the mainstream", but Malory doesn't treat
of Merlin's origin at all.
Hell did their best to create their own quasi-messiah, born of a virgin,
but the girl had sense enough to take her problem to a priest, who saw
to it that the infant was baptized at birth.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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