Comments on: Merlin http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2589 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Andy Elms http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2589&cpage=1#comment-58 Andy Elms Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:39:27 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2589#comment-58 Sounds well worth watching. But yes, there are plenty to mine in the Welsh bardic tradition – Mabinogion, Hanes Taliesin. The Misfortune of Elphin could have a suitably impressive apocalyptic opening episode… Whatever happened to studying the years between the Memorable Dates of 55BC and 1066 other than those bl**dy cakes.

And don’t get me started on the great missed opportunity of the lack of a Sunday teatime version of The Dark is Rising…

]]> By: Mark H Wilkinson http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2589&cpage=1#comment-55 Mark H Wilkinson Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:09:41 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=2589#comment-55 Britain doesn’t have a particularly deep well of folk myths to draw from

Yes, we do. It’s just that most of us don’t read much about it beyond what we learn via popular adaptations of (usually) Arthurian myth or Robin Hood. The amount of stuff that could be taken from Welsh (ie. pre-Christian Britain) folklore is, on its own, quite staggering, but it doesn’t seem to be taught in schools; nor is it the subject of many adaptations.

Where’s this generation’s Alan Garner? Perhaps he/she got sidelined when J K Bloody Rowling and the Muggles brigade took over most of the internet.

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