#Viviane is usually credited with #Merlin’s magical demise. She encased the magician in a tree, where he still lives today. Or perhaps she just bewitched him so that he believed he was encased. The location of Merlin’s prison-tree is usually given as the legendary forest of #Brocéliande in #Brittany.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Viviane and Merlin by Gustave Dore (1832 – 1883)

Merlin was entombed in a tree by Viviane aka Nimue aka the Lady of the Lake although other sourc…
https://twitter.com/CineLore/status/966614948901244928

#Viviane is usually credited with #Merlin’s magical demise. She encased the magician in a tree, where he still lives today. Or perhaps she just bewitched him so that he believed he was encased. The location of Merlin’s prison-tree is usually given as the legendary forest of #Brocéliande in #Brittany.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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Viviane and Merlin by Gustave Dore (1832 – 1883)

Merlin was entombed in a tree by Viviane aka Nimue aka the Lady of the Lake although other sour…
https://twitter.com/CineLore/status/966614948901244928

The #fairy lover of the great magician Merlin, #Viviane may be the same figure who appears in some legends under the name Nimue, who may in turn be the mysterious Lady of the Lake, protector of king #Arthur. Viviane is usually credited with Merlin’s magical demise.

Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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#Celtic #FairyTaleTuesday: The power behind Arthur`s throne was Merlin/Myrdinn, creating and maintaining the fair realm of Camelot. He never died but lives on somewhere in the #Otherworld where he was trapped by his lover, the #fairy queen or sorceress #Viviane (sometimes
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