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The prophecy of Merlin

A Cornish Tale set to Music

0	CALSTOCK: Calstock Arts
P	Friday 2nd May, 2025
N	7:00pm

Event information

Welcome to an hour of fast-moving oral storytelling and achingly beautiful music; an epic adventure story by Mike O’Connor and Barbara Griggs. After the story there will be a break followed by a 45 minute talk on the history and folklore behind it.
The original Prophecy of Merlin was a Cornish-language document of the 11th century or earlier, now lost. It was the basis of the Prophetia Merlini of about 1153 written by John of Cornwall, a priest from St Germans in Cornwall. In cryptic language, John criticised Saxon and Norman incomers and advocated British rule. The main historical sources for the tale are Merlin in Cornwall, a Ph.D. thesis by Michael A. Faletra, and Julyan Holmes’ An Dhargan a Verdhin: The Prophecy of Merlin. Athelstan’s ‘cleansing’ of the Cornish from Devon was recorded by William of Malmesbury in his De Gestis Regum Anglorum of 1125.

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CALSTOCK: Calstock Arts

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