MERLIN IN HIDING

Seeking the Mage in Modern Fiction and Film

“Because I am dark and always shall be,

let my book be dark and mysterious

in those places where I will not show myself”.

This passage, from a medieval text, describes the figure of Merlin as well as anything could. In no two versions is Merlin ever the same - even allowing for the idiosyncrasies of the various authors who have written about him, the diver…