Myrddin Wyllt is a figure in medieval Welsh legend.
10 Facts About Myrddin Wyllt
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Myrddin Wyllt fled into the forest, lived with the beasts and received the gift of prophecy.
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Myrddin Wyllt's grave is reputed to lie near the River Tweed in the village of Drumelzier near Peebles, although nothing remains above ground level at the site.
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Myrddin Wyllt has been condemned for his sins to wander in the company of beasts, having been the cause of the deaths of all of the persons killed in the battle fought on the plain between Liddel and Carwannok.
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Myrddin Wyllt appears several times more in the narrative until at last asking St Kentigern for the Sacrament, prophesying that he was about to die a triple death.
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Legend has it that second part of Carmarthen's name was derived from Myrddin Wyllt and identified his place of birth.
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Celticist A O H Jarman suggests that instead the name Myrddin was derived from Carmarthen's name.
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Clas Myrddin Wyllt, or Merlin's Enclosure, is an early name for Great Britain stated in the Third Series of Welsh Triads.
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Myrddin Wyllt included the Prophetiae in his more famous second work, the Historia Regum Britanniae.
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Myrddin Wyllt attached to him an episode originally ascribed to Ambrosius, and others that appear to be of his own invention.