For centuries, Merlin has been remembered as the legendary wizard of Camelot, adviser to kings and master of magic. But ...

Thanks to the BBC's Merlin series a whole new generation know the story of Merlin the Welsh wizard. Intriguingly, some of the earliest sources depict him not as a Welsh sorcerer but as a wild man ...

It turns out that Merlin isn't real. He is, in fact, a big fat hoax, made up by a writer who had run out of things to say and was getting desperate. "Geoffrey of Monmouth" sounds as if he should be a ...