Historical evidence for the existence of Merlin and a Dark Age sea voyage to North America.

In Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon in the New World Graham presents compelling evidence that the legend of Merlin was based on the life of an historical figure – the last of the Romans to rule the island of Britain.

Ultimately, Graham examines the legend that Merlin sailed off to Avalon, a mystical land said to lie far across the western seas. In an eighth-century Irish manuscript he finds evidence that this story was based on an historical sea crossing to North America a thousand years before the time of Columbus.

Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon in the New World

Graham Phillips

Published in December 2005 by Bear & Company

The Voyage to Avalon by the nineteenth-century British artist Joseph Noel Paton.  In the Arthurian Romances Merlin finally sails off the mystical  isle of Avalon.  The Voyage of Maelduin's Boat suggests that this island was somewhere far  across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Merlin - The Man behind the Myth

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Merlin's Last Resting Place

“Hang on,” screamed the skipper.  Too late!  I was slammed against the chart wall, only to be hurled to the floor as the boat somehow managed to right itself.

The roar of the storm powering down from Canadian Tundra did hold one macabre blessing: it drowned out the menacing sound of the waves that crashed over the deadly, jagged rocks that loomed from the water just a few terrifying feet from the starboard bow.

“If we can make it round the point we’ll have a chance of making land,” the skipper shouted.

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The story of King Arthur, as we now know it, comes from the work of the English writer Thomas Malory who wrote in the mid 1400s.  This is the Arthur who becomes king by drawing the sword from the stone, founds the fabulous city of Camelot at its Knights of the Round Table, and rules Britain with his beautiful queen Guinevere.   This story, in turn, had been taken from older, medieval tales known as the Arthurian Romances that were written in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, in which King Arthur and his knights fight dragons, rescue damsels in distress and search for the Holy Grail.  These were clearly romantic inventions but there was much earlier evidence that this King Arthur figure was based on a real warrior who had lived centuries before.Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon in the New World -      Chapter I   @   http://www.grahamphillips.net/Merlin/merlin_chapter.htm

Excalibur

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http://www.grahamphillips.net/Trail/7_Excalibur.htm

Are an old Irish saga written in the eighth century was called the Immram Curaig Maelduin Inso—“The Voyage of Merlin’s Boat”, The Voyage of Maelduin’s Boat, the Imram Brain—“The Voyage of Bran”,  and The Voyage of Saint Brendanall different stories of the same journey to Manannan Island as [referred as Emain Ablach in “The Voyage of Bran" (which sounds like Avallach - the god of orchards and apple trees)]?

Manana Island (Saint Brendan’s Isle?) is an island in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, lying adjacent to Monhegan island, about 10 miles (16 km) off Pemaquid Point on the mainland. The island is part of the Plantation of Monhegan.

And who is buried there?

Read:

Phillips, Graham. Merlin and the Discovery of Avalon in the New World . Inner Traditions/Bear & Company.