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* {{Woolseyism}}: Merlin is only named "Merlin" because of this. Geoffrey converted the Welsh name Myrddin to "Merlinus" in Latin because "Merdinus" would have been similar to "merde" and "merda", the Norman/French and Latin words for shit. What Geoffrey missed was that the ''-dd'' was pronounced as ''-th'' in Welsh, not a hard ''-d''.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: Merlin is only named "Merlin" because of this. Geoffrey converted the Welsh name Myrddin to "Merlinus" in Latin because "Merdinus" would have been similar to "merde" and "merda", the Norman/French and Latin words for shit. What Geoffrey missed was that the ''-dd'' was pronounced as ''-th'' in Welsh, Welsh (thus something like "Merthin"), not a hard ''-d''.''d''.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: Merlin is only named "Merlin" because of this. Geoffrey converted the Welsh name Myrddin to "Merlinus" in Latin because "Merdinus" would have been similar to "merde" and "merda", the Norman/French and Latin words for shit. What Geoffrey missed was that the ''-dd'' was pronounced as ''-th'' in Welsh, not a hard ''-d''.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: Merlin is only named "Merlin" because of this. Geoffrey converted the Welsh name Myrddin to "Merlinus" in Latin because "Merdinus" would have been similar to "merde", "merde" and "merda", the Norman/French word and Latin words for shit.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: Merlin is only named "Merlin" because of this. Geoffrey converted the Welsh name Myrddin to "Merlinus" in Latin because "Merdinus" would have been similar to "merde", the Norman/French word for shit.
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* MemeticBadass: Given that he appears in so many legends, Merlin definitely personifies this trope.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Merlin is partly based on the now almost unknown Welsh figure Myrddin, a Bard who went insane and who has his own set of legends.
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