Merlin, the magician. History and legends.
Merlin, also known as Myrddin or Merlinus, is the great magician of Arthurian legends best known for Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1469). The character was created by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his History of the Kings of Britain (1136), where he first appears as a wise and precocious young man with prophetic powers.