370 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



Morvryn, and Myrddin Wyllt,* who, in 

 the year 542, when fighting under the 

 banner of King Arthur, accidentally flew his 

 own nephew, and in confequence of this, 

 was feized with a madnefs which affected 

 him every other hour. He fled again into 

 Scotland, and in his lucid intervals com- 

 pofed fome beautiful pieces of poetry. This 

 Merlin afterwards returned to North Wales, 

 and was buried in the Ifle of Bardfey, in 

 Caernarvonshire . -f- 



Vortigern married his own child by 

 Rowena, daughter of Hengift, the Saxon 

 prince, and had by her one fon;J and 

 fome writers have faid, that he was af- 

 terwards fo much hurt at his crime, that 

 with his own hands he fet fire to his houfe, 



* Called alfo Merlinus Sylveftris. 

 t Evans's Diflertatio de Bardis, p. 77. Jones's 

 Welfh Bards, p. 23. 



+ Speed's Theatre of Great Britain, I. p. 313. 



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