Medievalists.net » Merlin http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Translating the Life of Merlin http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/22/translating-life-merlin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/22/translating-life-merlin/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:24:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48471 This essay analyses three of the most prominent translations of the Life of Merlin, in order to discern how the translator's differing methods have resulted in subtle, yet important, changes in meaning.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/22/translating-life-merlin/feed/ 0 The figure of Merlin in English literature from the beginnings to 1740 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/03/the-figure-of-merlin-in-english-literature-from-the-beginnings-to-1740/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/03/the-figure-of-merlin-in-english-literature-from-the-beginnings-to-1740/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 16:14:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31503 Merlin's first appearance in early Welsh poetry as prophet and seer was considerably expanded by Geoffrey of Monmouth who was the first to associate him with the saxon and British kings of England, particularly Arthur.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/03/the-figure-of-merlin-in-english-literature-from-the-beginnings-to-1740/feed/ 0 Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/continuity-and-discontinuity-illuminating-and-interlacing-the-adventures-of-viviane-and-merlin-in-the-prose-merlin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/continuity-and-discontinuity-illuminating-and-interlacing-the-adventures-of-viviane-and-merlin-in-the-prose-merlin/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:51:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17575 Continuity and Discontinuity: Illuminating and Interlacing the Adventures of Viviane and Merlin in the Prose Merlin Fabry, Irene Marginalia, Vol. 3 (2006) Abstract In the Estoire de Merlin, Viviane and Merlin’s love affair is illustrated and narrated intermittently through the use of manuscript illumination and the technique of interlace, with formulas indicating a change in […]

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