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© Roger Butterfield, Geograph. Licence CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Back in the days of the prophet Samuel, so the story goes, a grandson of Trojan hero Aeneas brought civilisation to the British Isles.
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From a thirteenth-century copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Prophetiae Merlini, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence Public domain.
Geoffrey of Monmouth tells the tale of how Merlin first came to the attention of Britain’s kings.