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Author | : Holland Lamaille |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781980672722 |
What happens when you grow up in Camelot as a child when knights and dragons fought. Your father is a legend how do you set your mark in history? The Great King Arthur has been like your uncle, Queen Guinevere your older sister, Lancelot has taught you battle skills and you are a natural genius at magic. Your mother from Africa died giving birth to you making you a mixed race child in an all Anglo Saxon world. What if you were not given the chance to outshine your father's legacy due to a mistake that cost lives? Your punishment removal from the history books and casted out. Carmarthen is the daughter of the great Merlin punished and sent forth to the future by her father. In our time she is limited in using her magic and is in the body of a now-deceased teenager. She must live the life as someone else and yet still wants redemption.
Author | : Carl Goldmark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Operas |
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Author | : Anne Lawrence-Mathers |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030018929X |
A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was “Merlin the Magician” and his impact on Britain. Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his “historical” figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was and what he has meant to Britain. The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real—and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the “long-lost” history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin’s prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain’s path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin’s magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. Linking Merlin’s reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages, this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time. “The story of how the image of Merlin as political prophet, magician and half-demon evolved in the Middle Ages is as fascinating as any romance.”—Euan Cameron
Author | : Robert (de Boron) |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780859917797 |
This trilogy establishes a provenance for the Holy Grail and, through the figure of Merlin, links Joseph of Arimathea with mythical British history and with the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest. It is hard to overstate the importance of this trilogy of prose romances in the development of the legend of the Holy Grail and in the evolution of Arthurian literature as a whole. They give a crucial new impetus to the story of the Grail by establishing a provenance for the sacred vessel - and for the Round Table itself - in the Biblical past; and through the controlling figure of Merlin they link the story of Joseph of Arimathea with the mythical Britishhistory of Vortigern and Utherpendragon, the birth of Arthur, and the sword in the stone, and then with the knightly adventures of Perceval's Grail quest and the betrayal and death of Arthur, creating the very first Arthurian cycle. Ambitious, original and complete in its conception, this trilogy - translated here for the first time - is a finely paced, vigorous piece of storytelling that provides an outstanding example of the essentially oral nature of early prose. NIGEL BRYANT is head of drama at Marlborough College. He has also provided editions in English of the anonymous thirteenth-century romance Perlesvaus, published as The High Book of the Grail, and Chretien's Perceval: The Story of the Grail.
Author | : Leah Tether |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110432463 |
The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.
Author | : M. K. Hume |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476715130 |
BOY, HEALER, PROPHET—THE EPIC TALE OF MERLIN BEGINS In the town of Segontium a wild storm washes a fugitive ashore. He brutally rapes the granddaughter of the ruler of the Deceangli tribe, leaving her to bear his son, Myrddion Merlinus (Merlin). Spurned as a demon seed, the child is raised by his grandmother and, as soon as he turns nine, he is apprenticed to a skilled alchemist who hones the boy’s remarkable gift of prophecy. Meanwhile, the High King of the Britons, Vortigern, is rebuilding the ancient fortress at Dinas Emrys. According to a prophecy, he must use the blood of a demon seed—a human sacrifice—to make his towers stand firm. Myrddion’s life is now in jeopardy, but the gifted boy understands that he has a richer destiny to fulfill. Soon Vortigern shall be known as the harbinger of chaos, and Myrddion must use his gifts for good in a land besieged by evil. So begins the young healer’s journey to greatness . . .
Author | : John Conlee |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 1998-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1580444164 |
With its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this edition makes the Prose Merlin available to any student of Arthurian legend, no matter their level of proficiency in Middle English. Written in the latter half of the fifteenth century, the Prose Merlin is the first work of Arthurian literature written in English prose. The highly original poem, though based upon the French Vulgate cycle tradition of Arthurian legends, is full of episodes, motifs, and characters found nowhere else in the entire Arthurian corpus. Beginning with the story surrounding Merlin's birth, and charting the course of his fantastical life until his ambiguous death, Prose Merlin is an enchanting text for any class studying Arthuriana.
Author | : Norris J. Lacy |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842343 |
Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : James E Wisher |
Publisher | : Sand Hill Publishing |
Total Pages | : 2411 |
Release | : 2018-07-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1945763426 |