Both included the work known as the Prose Merlin, but the Post-Vulgate authors left out the Merlin Continuation from the earlier cycle, choosing to add an original account of Arthur's early days including a new origin for Excalibur.

The only writer to widely publish British grimoires in the early 19th century, Robert Cross Smith, released The Philosophical Merlin ( 1822 ) and The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century ( 1825 ), but neither sold well.

During this period the Victoria Line was opened-although work had started in the early 1960s-and the AEC Merlin single-deck bus was introduced.

Geoffrey's account of Merlin Ambrosius ' early life in the Historia Regum Britanniae is based on the story of Ambrosius in the Historia Brittonum.

The authors of that work expanded it with the Vulgate Suite du Merlin ( Vulgate Merlin Continuation ), which describes King Arthur's early adventures.

** Supermarine Spitfire ( early Merlin powered variants ) – Merlin engine variants

In the early 1950s, he lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda, amongst others.

* In the early novels of Jack Whyte's Arthurian series, he had a notable connection to the Britannicus family, whom Whyte ties to the legends of Merlin, Arthur, and Camelot.

Whereas Corwin of the first series was a product of the late 1960s and 1970s and was more of a cross between a hardboiled detective in the vein of Raymond Chandler and a Highlander-like immortal with centuries of experience fighting his way through the stories, Merlin ( a product of the late 1980s and early 1990s when computers had become commonplace ) is a youthful hacker / magician finding himself in increasingly complex situations in the vein of modern hacker protagonists.

The closest there was to a main villain was Mogdred ( portrayed by John Woodnutt ), but his main duty was, according to Merlin ( a wizard, and Mogdred's ' alter ego ' in the first series ) in the penultimate episode of Series 2, to " scare you into making a mistake ", though he did kill two dungeoneers, one in Series 2 and another early in Series 4.

Appearing from aboriginal tribes in Australia and New Zealand to rainforest tribes in South America, bush tribes in Africa and pagan tribal groups in Western Europe and Britain ( as personified by Merlin, based on Welsh prophet Myrddin Wyllt ), some form of shamanism and belief in a spirit world seems to be common in the early development of human communities.

Some say it is interesting to note that all the other people mentioned in the chronicle are real and this argument is often offered as evidence for the historicity of Arthur, Merlin and Mordred ; however, given that the entries, or at least the insertion of the names of Arthur and Merlin, could have been added arbitrarily as late as 970, long after the development of the early Arthurian myth, it cannot be taken as a particularly conclusive argument.

In Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's Monday Begins on Saturday, Merlin is transported to the Soviet Union of the 1960s, where he explicitly refers to Twain's novel, declaring its protagonist an early exponent of American imperialism.

Oz, managed by Merlin the Wizard, was pushed strongly throughout early 1991 ; he squashed several wrestlers before losing to Ron Simmons at the Great American Bash on July 14.

The early critics who first discovered these commonalities took them as evidence that Beaumont and Fletcher had a hand in the authorship of The Birth of Merlin.

In an early episode based clearly on the story of Arfderydd, Peredur ( Peredurus ) is joined by his allies Merlin, king of the South Welsh, and Rhydderch, king of the Cumbrians, when he engages Gwenddolau ( Guennolus ), king of Scotland, in a battle at an unnamed site.

In early 2007 the Merlin Entertainments Group bought the majority of the shares of Tussauds Group from Dubai International Capital, which had taken over the shares in 2005.

* The Baron's Hall was also used as a ' banqueting hall ' location in the early episodes of BBC TV show Merlin.

However when the player moves the cursor around the map of England, Merlin will frequently comment on early legendary Anglo-Saxon saints.

Under another pseudonym, that of Conrad Allen, he has written a series featuring two ship's detectives during the early 1900s, while under his own name he has written two mysteries, set in the United States, which feature a Welsh architect, Merlin Richards.

* Making History: Writings on History and Culture, New York: New Press, 1994 ( British edition: Persons & Polemics, Merlin Press, London 1994, ISBN 0-85036-439-6 ).

“ Merlin Goes to the Movies: The Changing Role of Merlin in Cinema Arthuriana .” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 29. 3 – 4 ( 1999 ): 54 – 65.

He is best known for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ) of 1136, which spread Celtic motifs to a wider audience, including accounts of Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, wizard Merlin, and sword Caliburnus ( named as Excalibur in some manuscripts of Wace ).

Gustave Doré's illustration of Arthur and Merlin for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King, 1868

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 ().

Merlin advising King Arthur in Gustave Doré's illustration.

The Enchanter Merlin, by Howard Pyle from The Story of King Arthur and His Knights.

He goes on to add new episodes that tie Merlin into the story of King Arthur and his predecessors.

Though set long after his time frame for the life of " Merlin Ambrosius ", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

Mark Twain made Merlin the villain in his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Merlin is a major character in T. H. White's collection The Once and Future King and the related The Book of Merlyn.

In 2005, Merlin appeared as leader of the Woads of Britton and father to Guinevere in King Arthur.

The 2004 film King Arthur depicts the Picts ( called " Woads " in the film ) as tattooed and painted savage forest people, led by the dark magician Merlin.

It is also the home base for Merlin Squadrons embarked upon Royal Navy warships, the Westland Sea King AEW variant helicopter, a Search And Rescue ( Sea King, again ) helicopter flight, and some BAe Hawk T. 1 trainer jets used for training purposes by the Royal Navy.

The Fleet Air Arm currently operates the AgustaWestland Merlin, Westland Sea King and Westland Lynx helicopters.

To replace the Sea King in the Commando role, the Fleet Air Arm will receive the Merlin HC. 3 fleet currently operated by the RAF-some of these aircraft will remain as HC. 3 standard, while the rest will be fully navalised and classed as HC. 4.

More recently, Idle provided the voice of Merlin the magician in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third ( 2007 ) with his former Python co-star John Cleese, who voiced King Harold.

* In the fourth season episode " Lancelot du Lac " of the BBC series Merlin, Morgana uses necromancy to bring the knight Lancelot back from the dead in order to interfere with the pending marriage of King Arthur and Guinevere, thereby preventing Guinevere from becoming queen.

* The Sword in the Stone: Merlin, Mad Madam Mim, Wart ( King Aurthur ), Sir Ector, The Sculley Maid, Sir Pelinore, Little Girl Squrriel, Granny Squrriel, Archimedes, The Hawk, The Pike, The Hungry Wolf, and Sir Kay.

He is also called Thoth and Ordo Maas, and is the ancestor of Odysseus, Merlin, and King Arthur.

After the funeral, King Random orders Merlin to shut down Ghostwheel, but the artifact shows it is capable of self-defense, even against its creator, who is saved by the unexpected appearance of Luke-who thus proves, with the ability to traverse Shadow, that he too is no ordinary human.

Merlin returns to his birthplace in the Courts of Chaos in order to solve the existential riddle in which he is involved-to find that he is suddenly a lot closer to the throne of Chaos itself than he thought, King Swayvill having finally died of a long-standing illness ( aggravated, it is said, by the death curse of Eric of Amber ), and many other candidates having either been assassinated or dropped out, which pushes his own house of Sawall unexpectedly to the forefront.

) Jurt, frightened by the power politics, declares truce on Merlin, and calls off his own vendetta-suggesting that Dara and Mandor intend, themselves, to manipulate Merlin when becomes King, after first putting him on the throne.