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noun - (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor
noun - small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail
In Arthurian legend, a magician and prophet who served as counselor to King Arthur.
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| Visiting Cornwall? You'll find this wizard's cave near Tintagel Castle, the legendary site of King Arthur's birth |
| Mary Stewart worked magic in "The Crystal Cave", the first book in her trilogy about this Arthurian wizard |
| This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her |
| This magician was an advisor to both King Arthur & his father Uther Pendragon |
| At age 13, Christian Slater was on Broadway portraying a youthful version of this Arthurian wizard |
| Sam Neill played this whiz of a wizard in a 1998 miniseries |
| King Arthur's conjurer(6) |
| In one version of the story, Nimiane, also known as Nimue, imprisons this magician in a tower of air |
| T.A. Barron wrote a 5-book epic on this wizard who's a big part of T.H. White's "The Once and Future King" |
| In "Le Morte D'Arthur", Arthur tells him, I must take a wife but only "by thy counsel and thine advice" |
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| A small falcon (Falco columbarius) of northern regions, having predominantly dark plumage and a black-striped tail. Also called pigeon hawk. |
| a small dark falcon that hunts small birds, found throughout most of Eurasia and North America. |
| (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor |
| small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail used in falconry |
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Merlin (Welsh: Myrddin) is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a North Brythonic prophet and madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of the Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys). * Geoffrey's rendering of the character was immediately popular, especially in Wales. Later writers expanded the account to produce a fuller image of the wizard. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion: born of a mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood a |