New website of early Merlin poems

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/25/early-poems-about-merlin-portray-him-as-environmentalist-say-scholars

[Imperial Dave]

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 

'Scuse me Arthur...don't you go chopping down trees for a new palisade around Camelot! The squirrels will be furious'

 

[Jim Webster]

Our primitive forefathers were notorious for depicting the ancients wearing the same clothing as our forefathers and holding to the same beliefs