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Bookmark or Share- Myrddin Wyllt - WikipediaMyrddin Wyllt (Welsh: [ˈmərðɪn ˈwɨɬt] —"Myrddin the Wild", Cornish: Merdhyn Gwyls, Breton: Marzhin Gouez) is a figure in medieval Welsh legend. In Middle Welsh poetry he is accounted a chief bard, the speaker of several poems in The Black Book of Carmarthen and The Red Book of Hergest.
- Myrddin Wyllt | Welsh legendary figure | Britannica…once existed a legend of Myrddin Wyllt, a wild man of the woods who went mad at the sight of a battle, a legend associated with Suibne Geilt in Ireland and with Lailoken in Scotland. This Myrddin (later better known as Merlin) had the gift of prophecy.
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Myrddin WylltMYRDDIN Wyllt, i.e. the Mad (fl. 580?), Welsh poet, is in mediæval Welsh literature credited with the authorship of six poems printed in the ‘Myvyrian Archaiology,’ 2nd edit. pp. 104–18, 348. In two sets of the Triads he is styled Myrddin mab Morfryn, or ap Madog Morfryn (Myvyrian Archaiology, pp. 394, 411).
- Merlin: Biography on Undiscovered ScotlandMerlin, also known as Myrddin Wyllt, Merlin Caledonensis, or Merlin Sylvestrus lived from about 540 to August 584. He is a figure from Welsh legend who served as a bard before ending his days as a madman, prophet and mystic in the forests of Tweeddale in the Scottish Borders.
- The Story of Myrddin Wyllt: Elis Gruffudd - Ancient TextsThe books show that this Myrddin was so unstable in mind and senses that he would not live within dwelling houses, especially during the three months of summer, but in caves in the rocks and in harbours of his own work in the glens and the woods on either side of the river Conway.
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