-Caveat Lector-
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Johannes Schmidt III wrote:
>>Actually, I believe originally the term 'merlin' was used as a title, and only
>became associated as a personal
>>name due to the Arthurian legends. Somewhat akin to the names "Don" and "Donna",
>which originally were titles
>>of Spanish nobility (e.g., "Don Juan", "Donna (or Dona with the squiggle over the
>'n') Maria"), but later were
>>used as 'Christian' names in and of themselves.
>
>Sure, but the name itself is a 'male' name. Is it French? I don't think it's Hebrew.
>Maybe from Greek?
Since we only see it in the Arthurian legend, presumably the term has a
Celtic basis...
The term originally meant a wise person, like a wizard, irregardless of
the sex of the person referred to; a woman could be a merlin as readily
as a man.
It is only because one particular merlin who happened to be male was made
famous in the Arthurian legend, that people like you came to equate it to
a male Christian name...
I could be called 'Magician Smith'...there is nothing in the name that
should imply my gender....it's the same with 'Merlin', it is a title that
has evolved into a genderless name, on the same level as 'Robin' or
'Chris'...
June
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