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In case anyone else is interested, the name comes from the Welsh for Merlin[1], made famous in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry. I went to school (an
by tombh 8y ago
In case anyone else is interested, the name comes from the Welsh for Merlin[1], made famous in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry.
I went to school (and had my first ever paid software job) in Caerfyrddin (which can be translated as "Merlin's Field" ), a major town in West Wales.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1706e1/myrddin_a_language_for_coding_close_to_the_metal/c816nly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1706e1/myrddin...
- dghf 8y agoThe form "Merlin" first appears (as Merlinus) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, c. 1136. One suggested reason why Geoffrey didn't latinise the Welsh name more directly as Merdinus is the unfortunate similarity of the latter to the French merde.