Bristol manuscript fragments of the famous Merlin legend among the oldest of their kind

Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Bristol that tell part of the story of Merlin the magician, one of the most famous characters from Arthurian legend, have been identified by academics from the Universities of Bristol and Durham as some of the earliest surviving examples of that section of the narrative. Detail from one of the fragments showing the name Merlin [Credit: University of Bristol] The analysis also uncovered how the hand-written documents ended up in...