The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

Merlin was an Ancient, fleeing from Atlantis and later Ascends, then comes back in order build the Sangraal, or Holy Grail, to defeat the Ori.

An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

However, in what is sometimes called the Post-Vulgate Merlin, Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake sometime after he began to reign.

For example, the Spitfire, one of the few fighters in continuous production throughout the war, was in 1939 powered by a Merlin II, while variants produced in 1945 were equipped with the Griffon 61.

The first of these, Merlin ( 1898 – 1902 ) was thought to have been lost, but has recently been reconstructed and performed ;.

He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph Merlin.

While it was by no means the only creative force behind Arthurian romance, many of its elements were borrowed and developed ( e. g., Merlin and the final fate of Arthur ), and it provided the historical framework into which the romancers ' tales of magical and wonderful adventures were inserted.

This series of texts was quickly followed by the Post-Vulgate Cycle ( c. 1230 – 40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, now in order to focus more on the Grail quest.

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.

He keeps this new figure separate from Aurelius Ambrosius, and to disguise his changing of Nennius, he simply states that Ambrosius was another name for Merlin.

Robert's poem was rewritten in prose in the 12th century as the Estoire de Merlin, also called the Vulgate or Prose Merlin.

The Prose Merlin was also used as a prequel to the later Post-Vulgate Cycle, the authors of which added their own continuation, the Huth Merlin or Post-Vulgate Suite du Merlin.

On the other hand, in the Lancelot-Grail it is said that Merlin was never baptized and never did any good in his life, only evil.

According to the newly released website, pottermore, Merlin was described with deeper biographical background.

According to J. K. Rowling, Merlin was born sometime during the medieval era.

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.

Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, wrote, " It was his decision fifty years ago to publish the first edition of Oscar Wilde's letters which helped to put my grandfather back into the position which he lost in 1895 as one of the most charismatic and fascinating figures in English literary history.

* Merlin ( literary magazine )

Merlin Coverley gives equal prominence to this literary tradition alongside Situationism in his book Psychogeography ( 2006 ), not only recognising that the situationist origins of psychogeography are sometimes forgotten, but that via certain writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Daniel Defoe and Charles Baudelaire they had a shared tradition.

Plimpton was also associated with the literary magazine in Paris, Merlin, which folded because the State Department withdrew its support.

He was a long-term contributor to Private Eye magazine, as well as writing for Alexander Trocchi's literary journal, the Merlin.

His use of literary sources continues from his operatic writing into his symphonic writing, as can be shown by Sortilège, a symphonic poem inspired by Tennyson ’ s idyll Merlin and Vivien which was premièred by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin in 1996.

Following a cold and difficult winter, Girodias one day met up with numerous hungry expatriates, many of them working for Merlin, a literary review.

Beckett published Watt and his Malone Trilogy through the more literary Collection Merlin.

Subsequently, British END published a series of pamphlets through Merlin Press and a bi-monthly magazine, European Nuclear Disarmament Journal, which was edited by Mary Kaldor.

* The Fraudsters-How Con Artists Steal Your Money ( ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 ) by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing

* The Fraudsters-How Con Artists Steal Your Money Chapter 9, Pyramids of Sand ( ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 ) by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing, Ireland

Although not published in Merlin, American writer Terry Southern, who lived in Paris from 1948 − 1952, became a close friend of both Trocchi and his colleague Richard Seaver, and the three later co-edited the anthology Writers In Revolt ( 1962 ).

* The Fraudsters – How Con Artists Steal Your Money ( ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 ) by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing

Several " Chronicles of Amber " omnibus anthologies have also been published collecting the 5 novels from the original ' Corwin cycle ' or all 5 novels of the ' Merlin cycle ' or ( as in The Great Book of Amber ) all 10 novels.

He is a major character in two Jacobean plays, the anonymous The Birth of Merlin and Thomas Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent, first published in 1661.

One approach, by László Babai, who published " Trading group theory for randomness ", defined the Arthur – Merlin ( AM ) class hierarchy.

John James Audubon illustrated the Merlin in the second edition of Birds of America ( published in London, 1827 – 38 ) as Plate 75, under the title, " Le Petit Caporal – Falco temerarius ".

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* The Outsiders – Exposing the Secretive World of Ireland's Travellers Chapters 4 and 5 ( ISBN 978-1-903582-67-1 ) by Eamon Dillon, published Nov 2006 by Merlin Publishing

Paul Mattick's Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory published by Merlin Press in 1981 is an accessible introduction and discussion derived from Grossman's work.

* Mattick, Paul Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory published by Merlin Press in 1981

Meisha Merlin Publishing published the novels.

His poem sequence " Lark and Merlin ", published in Poetry in 2010, won the Bess Hokin Prize in 2011.

Originally published in the United Kingdom by Signet / Penguin, the books were later published by U. S. publisher Meisha Merlin.

* The Birth of Merlin was published in 1662 as the work of Shakespeare and William Rowley.

The Birth of Merlin is thus one of two plays published in the seventeenth century as a Shakespearean collaboration, the other being The Two Noble Kinsmen.

* Between 1215 and 1235, Robert de Boron, a successor of Chrétien de Troyes, published Histoire du Saint-Graal Story Of The Holy Grail, Histoire de Merlin Story Of Merlin, Le Livre de Lancelot du Lac Book Of Lancelot Of The Lake, La Quête du Saint-Graal Quest For The Holy Grail and La Mort du Roi Arthu Death Of King Arthur.

* The Fraudsters-How Con Artists Steal Your Money Chaper 10 ( ISBN 978-1-903582-82-4 ) by Eamon Dillon, published September 2008 by Merlin Publishing

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Besides the epic poems, Merlin ( 1892 ), Kaiser Friedrich der Edle ( 1896 ), König Laurins Rosengarten ( 1897 ), and Der König von Babel ( 1902 ), he published Hohenzollernsagen and Balladen ( 1898 ), the lyrics Auf Flügeln des Gesanges ( On wings of song, 1883 ), Lied und Leben ( 1889 ), Auf der Höhe ( 1902 ), and others, several dramas and the sketches in prose, Sylter Skizzen ( 1887 ).