Quote:I should note that, in certain Irish legends, these are the four key items of Ireland, and each of them can only be made to either, depending on the legend in question, work by or work for the True Ruler of each of the four historical divisions of Ireland.
The Weapons of the Armada: The Stone, The Sword, The Cauldron, The Spear
One of the elder celtic legends include that the reason the Fomor were driven away was the capture of the Four Treasures from them by the Tuatha, and then the Four Treasures were captured by the Milesians (the first men to live in Ireland), which brought the Tuatha into decline and send them into exile, as happened to the Fomor.
There are some interesting Irish/Scottish/Welsh/Manx legends which, after some research, you can see where they were borrowed from and put into the Arthurian legends.
And as Bob noted, 'Merlin' appears to be some kind of title. Most of the Druidic teachings are lost, because the Druids were a deliberately aliterate association, and what was written down has some notes in it that indicate that the writers were courting death, but they would choose their own death over the death of their knowledge. (It's quite sad, really, how much was lost by the forced conversions, both societal and religious, of the later Roman Empire and the Church that was highly influenced by it.)Brazil has decided you're cute.