A different sort of wizardry · 7:11pm Oct 24th, 2022
This is a month and a half old. But obviously I've watched it a couple dozen times since then, and probably someone here hasn't seen it.
And it just now struck that you know, I made my Star Swirl Scottish. But Merlin was Welsh, and Michael Sheen would voice him damn well.
If I may paraphrase Billy the Bard, I do believe he takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day.
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We few, we happy few, we band of fanfic writers.
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If you want to be even more precise, he was Brython (or Brythoniaid), which is what the people of modern day Wales called themselves at the time. "Welsh" as a cultural identity wouldn't emerge for centuries. The word "Welsh" derives from a Latin term meaning "foreigner" and was applied to them by the Romans and those who followed.
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Those sneaky Romans.
Anyway, Merlin certainly wasn't English, that's for sure
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Haha yeah. In fact, that's around the point when the Angles arrived and started forming kingdoms.