Myrddin Wyllt
Welsh · mortal · post roman · mortal
The madman-in-the-woods is the older layer and the court magician is the later one, and a registry that held only 'Merlin' would hold the later one and lose the fact. The Scottish Lailoken, generally taken to be the same figure under another name, is carried in the alt-name list and not as a separate record; there is no Scottish tradition key in this corpus.
Domains
- prophecy
- madness in the wild
Relations
- distinguished by the sources from: Myrddin Emrys
- contemporary of: Arthur
Sources
- Reference treatments of Myrddin Wyllt and of the Welsh Merlin tradition.