https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/25/early-poems-about-merlin-portray-him-as-environmentalist-say-scholars
Thanks for the link Duncan
I am not sure calling him an early environmentalist is quite the right thing. Spiritualist? Yes. Animalist? Yes. Shaman? Yes. Campaigner for protection of the landscape....erm ;D
'Scuse me Arthur...don't you go chopping down trees for a new palisade around Camelot! The squirrels will be furious'
:)
Our primitive forefathers were notorious for depicting the ancients wearing the same clothing as our forefathers and holding to the same beliefs ;)