Versi Geoffrey menjadi terkenal dan kemudian ditambahi oleh berbagai penulis. Secara tradisi ia dilahirkan dari ayah [[incubus]] dan ibu manusia, dan mendapat kekuatan sihirnya dari perpaduan yang ajaib ini. Ia menjadi penasehat raja Arthur sampai ia disihir dan ditawan oleh [[Lady of the Lake]]. Legenda lain mengatakan bahwa ia jatuh cinta padanya dan hidup bersamanya dengan bahagia.
== Pranala luar ==
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* [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Merlin Merlin: or the early History of King Arthur: a prose romance] ([[Early English Text Society]] [Series]. Original series : 10, 112), edited by Henry Wheatly. (1450s) (The complete prose Middle English translation of the ''Vulgate Merlin''. Chapter I to VI cover Robert de Boron's ''Merlin''.)
* ''Prose Merlin'', [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/pmint.htm Introduction] and [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/confront.htm Text] (TEAMS Middle English text series) edited by John Conlea, 1998. (1450s) (A selection of many passages of the prose Middle English translation of the ''Vulgate Merlin'' with connecting summary. The sections from [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/melbifr.htm The Birth of Merlin] to [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/swordfr.htm Arthur and the Sword in the Stone] cover Robert de Boron's ''Merlin'').
* [http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck/mss/arthur.html ''Of Arthour and Merlin: Auchenlich Manuscipt''] (National Library of Scotland) (1330s). (A Middle-English verse adaptation of the ''Vulgate Merlin'' combined with material closer to Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia''. Lines 1-3059 cover approximately Robert de Boron's ''Merlin'').
