so...Merlins now a glaswegian??

[IRISH]

merlin may have been from glasgow, but he didn't support rangers...

[skauwt]

http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dy...t/merlmenu.htm

origins of merlin perhaps?


Geoffrey of Monmouth

[skauwt]

merlin may have been from glasgow, but he didn't support rangers...

nah he was a albion rovers fan

[KFCarter]

nah he was a albion rovers fan

maybe he can work some real magic from beyond the grave and get them promoted to the second division...

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Back in the early 70s I spent a fascinating week-end with Alex MacAdam out at Bedley Castle in Lanarkshire, sort of near Glasgow. MacAdam had been a Captain in the HLI in WWII, and was the first person I had met who put forward the notion that the Arthurian legends were based on historical events in Scotland. Using his military training, maps of the area, and locations of battles (allegedly) fought by Arthur he had spent twenty years plotting sites to support his theory. Not being an Arthurian scholar, and not caring if Merlin was Welsh or Cornish, or Italian if it comes to it, I thought Captain MacAdam made a pretty good case for Arthur to have been a Strathclyde Welshman.

It was his theory that the story of Arthur traveled down the coast from Scotland to Wales where it was embellished to suit local conditions and local Welsh folk-lore.

Aside from MacAdam's Arthurian interests, he was a dealer in Scottish Arms and Armour, and had more 17th and 18th century swords on his billiard table than are on the walls at Inverary! If only I had bought more of them...

[Bugbear]

All right, I have the versions of the Arthurian legends from Sir Thomas Malory, also, Alfred Tennyson in my library; though it was the Tennyson version that I studdied in the college course on Victorian Poets .

So... Which version should I accept as the true and factual acount.

Only joking.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

All right, I have the versions of the Arthurian legends from Sir Thomas Malory, also, Alfred Tennyson in my library; though it was the Tennyson version that I studdied in the college course on Victorian Poets .

So... Which version should I accept as the true and factual acount.

Only joking.

Any of them written by John Matthews!

[Bugbear]

Any of them written by John Matthews!

Hmmm, I will keep a look out for books by John Matthews... Very interesting person. Thanks for the lead.