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For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.
Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
Researcher Unlocks Secrets From Only Surviving King Arthur’s Pearl Manuscript, Hidden Inside an Old Book for Centuries For centuries, the legend of King Arthur and his enigmatic advisor Merlin has ...
“It was first thought to be a 14th-century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old French Vulgate Merlin sequel, a different and extremely significant ...
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
It was first thought to be a 14th century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old ...
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
The fragment contains two key episodes, including the only surviving account about Merlin and the early years of Arthur's court.
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...
The legend of King Arthur has been told to children around the world for centuries. Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside ...
University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, Guinevere and the world of Camelot have come to be known as Arthurian legend, or the matter of Britain.