The inspiration for Merlin was an alleged British prophet named Myrddin Wyllt. He supposedly wandered the forest, telling his prophecies to his only friend - a wild piglet. Geoffrey of Monmouth changed the piglet to a wolf when he wrote Myrddin's biography.

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