…the new ideas. With that, let me now go into the stories, the whole history of Arthur as it occurs in Geoffrey of Monmouth. Behind Arthur is this wonderful figure, merlin. Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote another work, a shorter work called the vita merlini,…

…the stories, the whole history of Arthur as it occurs in Geoffrey of Monmouth. Behind Arthur is this wonderful figure, merlin. Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote another work, a shorter work called the vita merlini, the life of merlin and in that life the figure…

…the early chronicles telling of his life, the oral tradition of the hope of the kings of Britain, the writing of Geoffrey of Monmouth of the history of the kings of Britain. Then the coming of bards, celtic bards to the French court, celebrating old…

…The first entry of all of this stuff into the literary tradition comes in 1136, a book written by a welshman named Geoffrey of Monmouth, the history of the kings of Britain. Now this is the history of those people who were in Britain before the English…