This is the second part of Merlin's story, please listen to Part 1 first as it will give you some context for the battle that is about to happen and Merlin's grief
The battle happened in a field, by a river, in a place that now lies on the Western section of the English-Scottish Border. In the old texts the battle is recorded happening in the year 573 and is labeled one of the Three Futile Battles of Britain. We don't know why it was fought and some suggest it was futile because it pitted Briton against Briton when their fighting power would have been better directed at the invading Angles.
The short written record also states that this was the battle in which "Merlin became mad".
His madness became to focus of my telling of this story. Having experienced the madness of traumatic grief and spent multiple stretches of three days and nights fasting out in wilderness I drew on these experiences to imagine his initiation.
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I consider the experience of grief to be an initiatory experience. This post explains how I arrived at the understanding the grief carried medicine to help us unfold in to a more expanded version of ourself.
Episode 5: Myrddin of the Wildwood Part 2