Introduction
In the book Idylls of the King, Merlin acts as Arthur’s adviser, a prophet and a magician. Merlin is simply a creation of Geoffrey of Monmouth currently in living his 12th century history under Kings of Britain. He combined both the welsh tradition about a prophet known by the name Myrddin with the story. As the story unfolds we get to understand that Merlin had no human father. It unfolds later that Merlin too had earlier prophesied of the downgrading defeat of the British Knights by the Saxons (Tennyson, 16). The original Merlin legend that is portrayed in various medieval Welsh poems ...
