The Brendan Voyage (1976–1977)

Tim Severin (1940 - ) is a British explorer, historian and writer. Severin is noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures.

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.