Merlin the Wizard, how did that ever get started? Was there someone one time....?

Question

that they thought this to have really been true, or totally fictional?

Answer 1

Read the story about King Arthur and Camelot. Merlin plays quite a role and there is a whole host of characters that you should know about. It is a story but there was a King Arthur. Someone lent me a book long ago about Merlin's boyhood that was really great but again fiction. Wizards were an acceptable part of life in those days and who really knows. But it isn't like the story of Beowolf, that all the movies are slaughtering. That is a real story about the deeds men did to be remembered. The only way to be remembered in those days was to do a brave deed so that it would be talked about for generations to come during the long winters. Bewolf was only saved because the priests wrote it down so that it would be remembered for eternity. Their mark on the story was to make the monster Grendle's mother the mother of Cain. So much of the past is forgotten and lost forever. . .Then there was something else I read that said that there is no such thing as creativity. . .That everything has already been said and done and that each story is only a rembrance of the past. And if you start reading some of the wonderful things written in the past, remember that the only thing is takes to make them true is to believe. . .

Answer 2

Arthurian stories are really just myth and legend. There isn't proof that there really was a man named Arthur with a court at Camelot and the fair Guenevire. Merlin is most likely based on a famous druid of the Celts who had lived in England before the Romans came and conquered the land. Just like Arthur is most likely based on a famous man of Brittania.

Answer 3

Fiction but based on a person who was a legend and possibly real. Myrddin Wyllt.