Dark origins. The very first Merlin was not a wizard. Sources from the Middle Ages speak of a Welsh bard or poet from the sixth century, Myrddin Wyllt, who lived in the court of Gwenddoleu, the ...

Torn, folded and stitched, rare tales of Merlin shapeshifting into King Arthur’s court and Sir Gawain gaining power from the sun were bound into a book of property records from the 1500s.