The legend of Merlin

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known, lived there really that great Celtic magician and seer.Even the legend of how he became a magician, tell a different story.

said in Merlin's mother possessed by an evil spirit, which she conceived a son.The woman begged God for salvation, bringing her son did not inherit anything demonic but the gift of magic.According to another version, Merlin was a soldier who had lost his mind in the battle, and with the recovery he acquired magical powers.



At an early age Merlin had to come to grips with the magicians of Vortigern the king of the Britons.King fought with the Germans, but they prefer a fair fight witchcraft: they managed opoit Vortigern love potion.King was kindled mad love for the daughter of the leader of the German Ronvene, and allowed the Germans to conquer Britain.Then

court magicians, who could not overcome the spell, the monarch was advised to build a castle in Wales, which was to stop the invasion.But it was just to lay it on top of the hill foundation, as he immediately left the ground.Then mages proclaimed that the fortress will not be able to build, if the hill is not sprinkled with the blood of the boy, born of a mortal mother, but did not have the death of his father.

It turned out to be such a baby Merlin.He and his mother was lured to the castle Vortigern.However, the young magician so impressed the king that he changed his mind to kill him.Instead, the king asked Merlin's advice, and he told us that the hill is a huge body of water, which swallowed up the foundation.At the bottom of the lake, said the young magician on two flat stones, hiding the sleeping dragon.When the Dragons were discovered, they came together in a deadly battle that stopped the invasion.

Next Legend has it that Merlin helped the British king secretly possess beauty, wife of the Duke of Cornwall, changing its shape and making like an old warrior.He did not do it for gold: the prophet knew that this love is born the legendary King Arthur.And so it happened.Merlin took the boy to raise, at the same time protecting it from trying to kill the young King of applicants.

We will not retell the legend of Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and Merlin, they are well known.To mention only the legend of Merlin's death.

Magician fell madly in love Vivian certain that some believe the King's daughter, the other - the water fairy.She also fell in love with the great magician and bewitched him to maintain his power over him.Vivian fished Merlin magic secret tombs carved into the rock, lured him back and locked there forever, so Merlin remained alive but completely cut off from the world.

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