I brought this book for my sister's birthday, she was Merlin in a past lifetime. She loved the book.
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Merlin is well known as a Camelot wizard involved with King Arthur, but here's a different take from Graham Phillips, who spent twenty years uncovering evidence that Merlin was actually based on the life of the son of a Roman counsel who was the last of them to rule Britain in the 5th century A.D. Rather than ending his life in the mystical Avalon, Phillips argues that Merlin actual journeyed to the New World via the Arctic...
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I picked this up as a follow-on from the author's previous works involving Arthur in British myth and his identity as a real historical figure. As thought-provoking as these ideas were, I was initially very sceptical as to the possibility of a similarly convincing identification of Merlin. Happily my first thoughts proved unfounded. Despite reading more like a Dan Brown novel than an academic discourse, the threads of a variety...
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This book of 'Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon' was such a magnificent historical insight into a legend we are all so familiar with - the Magician Merlin from the Arthurian legends. Mr. Phillip's theory to whom the 'real' Merlin may have been is both enthralling and fascinating and the historical man is even more interesting than any fantasy writer has written. And how the royal line may actually be linked to the present...
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