1 00:00:13,054 --> 00:00:15,881 The treasure is my son, taliesin, 2 00:00:15,905 --> 00:00:19,596 and in his voice will be born a kingdom of summer. 3 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:20,946 I do not love the bard. 4 00:00:20,970 --> 00:00:22,468 It's only his power I desire. 5 00:00:23,550 --> 00:00:25,806 The supreme spirit, the lord of all worlds, 6 00:00:25,830 --> 00:00:28,056 my lord reigns over them all. 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,351 You are young. 8 00:00:29,375 --> 00:00:30,726 To your eyes, perhaps. 9 00:00:30,750 --> 00:00:33,306 My people carry our years more lightly than others. 10 00:00:33,330 --> 00:00:34,430 Ave, Maria! 11 00:00:35,294 --> 00:00:36,906 I would be your wife, taliesin. 12 00:00:36,930 --> 00:00:38,046 Together we could build the world 13 00:00:38,070 --> 00:00:39,820 more powerful than Atlantis itself. 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,210 Atlantis rests at the bottom of the sea, morgain. 15 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:49,896 Taliesin, he has declared his love for me. 16 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:50,976 What have you found? 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:51,809 A hawk! 18 00:00:51,833 --> 00:00:52,833 A Merlin. 19 00:00:54,871 --> 00:00:56,976 I've seen a land shining with goodness. 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,072 It's the kingdom of summer and I will be its king. 21 00:01:01,410 --> 00:01:02,876 The baby's dead. 22 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,046 Jesu! 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:11,800 God in heaven. 24 00:01:17,010 --> 00:01:18,806 My son has the eyes of a hawk! 25 00:01:18,830 --> 00:01:20,541 Of a Merlin. 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 No! 27 00:02:10,610 --> 00:02:13,827 They say that Merlin is mad. 28 00:02:27,990 --> 00:02:29,733 They say he was a king in dyfed, 29 00:02:30,706 --> 00:02:34,353 that his rule was just and his hand was strong. 30 00:02:38,010 --> 00:02:39,753 They say he was a bard, 31 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:43,893 the son of a Princess of lost Atlantis, 32 00:02:45,030 --> 00:02:47,343 and a cymry prophet of great renown. 33 00:02:51,210 --> 00:02:55,623 They say the future and the past are known to him. 34 00:02:59,970 --> 00:03:03,213 That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets. 35 00:03:05,446 --> 00:03:06,876 That the magic of the hill folk and druids 36 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:11,521 and daughters of bel come forth at his easy command. 37 00:03:15,270 --> 00:03:18,573 They say he slew hundreds. 38 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,213 Hundreds, do you hear? 39 00:03:22,830 --> 00:03:26,556 That the world burned and the ground trembled at his wrath. 40 00:03:26,580 --> 00:03:30,003 Lord death thanked him for his terrible harvest. 41 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:31,900 Death! 42 00:03:33,570 --> 00:03:35,603 You have taken all of the others. 43 00:03:38,316 --> 00:03:40,811 Why have you not taken me? 44 00:03:48,226 --> 00:03:53,209 Go back the way you came! 45 00:06:30,107 --> 00:06:33,126 Do not raise your hand against me again, daned, 46 00:06:33,150 --> 00:06:34,200 if you would keep it. 47 00:06:38,313 --> 00:06:40,026 How do you know my name? 48 00:06:40,050 --> 00:06:41,526 I know a great many things. 49 00:06:41,550 --> 00:06:43,713 Silence! It's a trick! 50 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:45,723 A trick, iddec? 51 00:06:47,135 --> 00:06:48,135 Is that what you believe? 52 00:06:49,460 --> 00:06:51,912 Duach! 53 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:53,676 What is it? 54 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:54,996 He knows us! 55 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:58,083 He knows nothing you haven't already told him. 56 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,163 And you! Do not test me! 57 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:05,796 I'm a powerful druid. 58 00:07:05,820 --> 00:07:08,586 I would speak lightly of power, friend, 59 00:07:08,610 --> 00:07:10,533 for I know whence your power comes. 60 00:07:14,580 --> 00:07:16,826 Whoever they were, they've moved on. 61 00:07:16,850 --> 00:07:20,241 You know well who they were, son of vortigern, 62 00:07:20,265 --> 00:07:22,515 the very saecsen raiders... 63 00:07:23,645 --> 00:07:29,295 You and your father gave a foothold in our land. 64 00:07:31,775 --> 00:07:33,156 You told him who we are! 65 00:07:33,180 --> 00:07:36,036 No, my prince! I swear it! 66 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:38,316 I do not care for their manner, my lord. 67 00:07:38,340 --> 00:07:40,026 Perhaps we should not go with them. 68 00:07:40,050 --> 00:07:43,281 We have nothing to fear from these men, pelleas. 69 00:07:43,305 --> 00:07:44,526 And I am eager to meet the man 70 00:07:44,550 --> 00:07:47,346 who has made himself king over all others. 71 00:07:47,370 --> 00:07:49,326 It's the quickest way I know to announce to the world 72 00:07:49,350 --> 00:07:53,193 that Merlin emrys has returned to the land of the living. 73 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:03,640 My father will like you. 74 00:08:32,580 --> 00:08:33,797 Perfect! There you go. 75 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:37,416 Provisions are being gathered, 76 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,090 but we need time to build a wall. 77 00:08:41,490 --> 00:08:42,590 We haven't got time. 78 00:08:47,410 --> 00:08:48,954 Up against the wall, right now! 79 00:08:48,978 --> 00:08:50,309 You said it would be done. 80 00:08:50,333 --> 00:08:52,711 And it will be, great king. 81 00:08:53,545 --> 00:08:54,545 Riders approach! 82 00:09:05,355 --> 00:09:07,537 Help you, my lord. 83 00:09:12,850 --> 00:09:14,599 Open the gate! 84 00:09:20,722 --> 00:09:22,554 We need to put a plug. Right there. 85 00:09:22,578 --> 00:09:24,103 Right there! 86 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,873 My father and my king, 87 00:09:28,710 --> 00:09:33,710 I bring you a great gift and the answer to your troubles. 88 00:09:35,130 --> 00:09:38,796 No! There must be some mistake. 89 00:09:38,820 --> 00:09:42,966 The man I seek was already old when I was a child. 90 00:09:42,990 --> 00:09:44,954 This cannot be the Merlin. 91 00:09:44,978 --> 00:09:47,946 They say Merlin is of the faer folk, my king. 92 00:09:47,970 --> 00:09:50,076 They call him emrys. 93 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:51,100 Immortal! 94 00:09:53,370 --> 00:09:54,936 Is that so? 95 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,585 I'm known by many names, vortigern. 96 00:10:02,077 --> 00:10:04,536 You will call him, "high king!" 97 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:05,560 Pascent! 98 00:10:12,690 --> 00:10:16,236 And do you know why I have sought you? 99 00:10:16,260 --> 00:10:19,326 Work on your stronghold is going badly. 100 00:10:19,350 --> 00:10:23,196 Your druids blame an evil spirit for the failure 101 00:10:23,220 --> 00:10:25,293 of your masons to build a decent wall. 102 00:10:28,050 --> 00:10:29,286 Go on. 103 00:10:29,310 --> 00:10:31,836 They tell you the blood of a virgin-born man is required 104 00:10:31,860 --> 00:10:33,543 to secure your foundations. 105 00:10:34,410 --> 00:10:36,935 Is that not the way of it, joram? 106 00:10:38,107 --> 00:10:38,916 Ready! 107 00:10:38,940 --> 00:10:41,697 Is there any doubt this is the man we require? 108 00:10:43,510 --> 00:10:45,786 He is full of tricks, sire. 109 00:10:45,810 --> 00:10:47,160 Do not let him confuse you! 110 00:10:48,060 --> 00:10:51,996 My enemies ride against me. 111 00:10:52,020 --> 00:10:55,086 I would fortify this position, 112 00:10:55,110 --> 00:10:59,480 but each night my walls... 113 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,286 Crumble and fall. 114 00:11:05,310 --> 00:11:09,156 Are you indeed a fatherless child, Merlin emrys? 115 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:14,016 Or perhaps just another bastard without a father? 116 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,733 My father was taliesin ap elphin ap gwyddno, 117 00:11:19,230 --> 00:11:21,280 names that were once lauded in this land. 118 00:11:22,530 --> 00:11:27,066 Names of great renown in cymry long, long ago. 119 00:11:27,090 --> 00:11:30,696 But, sire, taliesin was no mortal. 120 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,906 He was an otherworldly being. 121 00:11:33,930 --> 00:11:36,047 That will be news to my mother. 122 00:11:38,190 --> 00:11:41,253 There are no evil spirits at work here, vortigern, 123 00:11:41,277 --> 00:11:43,863 and no man virgin-born, save one only. 124 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:50,240 Your problem is taking council from liars and fools. 125 00:11:50,730 --> 00:11:53,430 What proof do you offer that the wall is not cursed? 126 00:12:10,067 --> 00:12:11,067 Underground? 127 00:12:11,865 --> 00:12:12,674 Oof! 128 00:12:12,698 --> 00:12:13,698 Underground. 129 00:12:16,710 --> 00:12:17,710 You sure? 130 00:12:18,420 --> 00:12:20,680 I grow impatient, Merlin. 131 00:12:22,436 --> 00:12:25,045 He'll spill your blood to build his wall. 132 00:12:25,069 --> 00:12:28,537 Aye. Vortigern is a pitiless man. 133 00:12:29,580 --> 00:12:30,580 And desperate. 134 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:34,986 But nothing will happen to me 135 00:12:35,010 --> 00:12:37,547 that is not appointed to happen, pelleas. 136 00:12:38,927 --> 00:12:40,686 You did not bring me back to the world of men 137 00:12:40,710 --> 00:12:41,998 to watch me die in this pit. 138 00:12:42,832 --> 00:12:45,096 Enough! These men mock you! 139 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,385 And they waste what little time we have left. 140 00:12:48,219 --> 00:12:49,219 Pascent! 141 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:36,693 No evil spirits. 142 00:13:38,610 --> 00:13:39,903 No underground dragon. 143 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:43,296 The spring washes the earth away 144 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,220 beneath the weight of your stone wall. 145 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,440 Traitor. 146 00:13:55,524 --> 00:13:56,524 Traitor! 147 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:13,233 These men, whom I entrusted with my life, 148 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:16,893 have shown themselves false before me. 149 00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:24,033 These men were so eager for your blood. 150 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,350 Surely they will not mind my asking for theirs. 151 00:14:37,293 --> 00:14:39,402 No! No! No! No! 152 00:15:00,597 --> 00:15:05,073 I am an old man, Merlin, and a fool. 153 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,696 You have my apology and you will have my reward. 154 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,980 I'll accept nothing from your hand, vortigern. 155 00:15:14,430 --> 00:15:18,186 Am I so distasteful to your eyes? 156 00:15:18,210 --> 00:15:19,986 Whatever you would give to me, 157 00:15:20,010 --> 00:15:21,410 you have taken from another. 158 00:15:23,430 --> 00:15:24,663 You have done much evil. 159 00:15:26,670 --> 00:15:29,226 And much evil will be done to you. 160 00:15:29,250 --> 00:15:31,500 He's gone home! 161 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:37,386 Have I not held the land in peace these last years? 162 00:15:37,410 --> 00:15:39,936 Given the saecsen safe harbor to plunder our land 163 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:41,493 is not holding the peace. 164 00:15:43,650 --> 00:15:45,426 I saw no other way. 165 00:15:45,450 --> 00:15:47,673 You traded strength for peace, 166 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,003 but there'll be no peace without strength. 167 00:15:52,710 --> 00:15:55,056 Father, you would free these men 168 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:57,516 after they humiliated you in your own court? 169 00:15:57,540 --> 00:16:00,393 I humiliated myself, as did you. 170 00:16:02,310 --> 00:16:05,616 You just killed your own counselors on the brink of war. 171 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:06,963 False counselors! 172 00:16:09,229 --> 00:16:10,593 And an unwinnable war. 173 00:16:16,888 --> 00:16:18,188 I had a vision. 174 00:16:19,813 --> 00:16:21,033 A waking dream. 175 00:16:22,470 --> 00:16:25,374 I saw the pit that Merlin dug. 176 00:16:28,830 --> 00:16:30,350 I heard his pick... 177 00:16:32,449 --> 00:16:35,818 As it struck the stone, only instead of water... 178 00:16:38,059 --> 00:16:40,023 A great cavern lay beneath. 179 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,573 In the cavern, were two great stones like eggs. 180 00:16:52,470 --> 00:16:53,736 Inside the eggs, 181 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,516 two dragons came forth to battle one another. 182 00:16:57,540 --> 00:17:00,843 The first was white as milk. 183 00:17:01,740 --> 00:17:03,026 And the other... 184 00:17:06,323 --> 00:17:07,323 Red... 185 00:17:09,747 --> 00:17:10,747 As blood! 186 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,653 And they fought each other, the dragons, 187 00:17:17,550 --> 00:17:20,523 and their battle was terrible to behold. 188 00:17:22,980 --> 00:17:24,633 Sorely they wounded one another, 189 00:17:24,657 --> 00:17:26,886 and when they could fight no more, 190 00:17:26,910 --> 00:17:30,693 they dragged themselves back into their eggs and slept, 191 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,793 but only to fight again once they were rested. 192 00:17:38,070 --> 00:17:39,323 What of this dream? 193 00:17:40,969 --> 00:17:41,969 Merlin? 194 00:17:44,051 --> 00:17:45,051 Merlin? 195 00:17:46,131 --> 00:17:47,402 Master? 196 00:17:53,547 --> 00:17:54,993 The dream, Merlin. 197 00:17:56,550 --> 00:17:57,963 What of this dream? 198 00:18:00,540 --> 00:18:02,957 Do you really want to know? 199 00:18:06,813 --> 00:18:08,313 Flee, vortigern. 200 00:18:09,510 --> 00:18:12,603 If you would live, you must flee. 201 00:18:13,710 --> 00:18:16,386 The dragons you have seen are your enemies, 202 00:18:16,410 --> 00:18:18,303 white for the saecsen horde, 203 00:18:19,650 --> 00:18:22,896 red for the true sons of britain 204 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,263 whose father you murdered for your crown. 205 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,286 But they war with each other, not with us. 206 00:18:29,310 --> 00:18:32,163 The saecsen may still join us after all we've given them. 207 00:18:35,130 --> 00:18:36,543 Is there no hope for me? 208 00:18:38,310 --> 00:18:42,636 Here is your hope and the hope of our people. 209 00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:44,826 From the events of which you have set in motion, 210 00:18:44,850 --> 00:18:48,063 a king will arise to hold all britain in his hand. 211 00:18:49,380 --> 00:18:52,563 A high king who will be the wonder of the world, 212 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:55,746 a chief dragon 213 00:18:55,770 --> 00:18:58,263 to utterly devour the white dragon of the pit. 214 00:19:04,083 --> 00:19:05,083 You? 215 00:19:07,731 --> 00:19:09,426 I do not know. 216 00:19:09,450 --> 00:19:11,193 He speaks of destruction! 217 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:15,696 I will ride this very night to the saecsen shore 218 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,084 to rally our friends to our cause. 219 00:19:18,108 --> 00:19:19,140 Ride! 220 00:19:19,164 --> 00:19:20,466 Ride then, boy. 221 00:19:20,490 --> 00:19:24,183 Ride and do not tarry! Our doom is upon us. 222 00:19:25,342 --> 00:19:27,039 Ride! 223 00:19:35,790 --> 00:19:39,393 If this is to be vortigern's last stand, 224 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,433 let my son be well away from this place. 225 00:19:50,250 --> 00:19:51,636 Put those arrows on high. 226 00:19:51,660 --> 00:19:53,560 They'll be of no use to you down here! 227 00:19:54,810 --> 00:19:56,760 It would be very helpful if you stayed. 228 00:19:58,020 --> 00:19:59,493 My road lies another way. 229 00:20:05,341 --> 00:20:06,929 Boy! 230 00:20:06,953 --> 00:20:08,977 What's the matter? 231 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:10,737 What is this? 232 00:20:10,761 --> 00:20:12,486 Bring it up! I'll bring it up. 233 00:20:12,510 --> 00:20:15,160 If there is to be a battle, I'll fight for my king. 234 00:20:17,370 --> 00:20:18,816 Nay. 235 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,596 Nay! Not for another summer yet. 236 00:20:22,620 --> 00:20:25,413 I'll do my part, my lord, like every other man here. 237 00:20:31,950 --> 00:20:35,436 Aid the archers at the top of the tower, the very top, 238 00:20:35,460 --> 00:20:37,056 you guard their backs. 239 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,652 Yes? 240 00:20:41,910 --> 00:20:42,933 Guard their backs. 241 00:20:46,397 --> 00:20:47,856 Yes, now. 242 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,089 Here, let me help you with this. 243 00:20:49,113 --> 00:20:50,556 Stop your trembling! 244 00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:53,826 Take heart, you people of the island of the mighty, 245 00:20:53,850 --> 00:20:56,973 for the soul of britain is stirring again. 246 00:20:59,226 --> 00:21:00,226 Dafyd? 247 00:21:03,709 --> 00:21:05,232 Merlin! 248 00:21:05,256 --> 00:21:06,065 Dafyd! 249 00:21:06,089 --> 00:21:08,089 My lord, you're alive! 250 00:21:09,062 --> 00:21:14,062 To see you after all these years. 251 00:21:16,392 --> 00:21:19,751 But you have not altered a whit. 252 00:21:26,090 --> 00:21:30,246 Dafyd, what is this? 253 00:21:36,157 --> 00:21:38,740 Why is this holy man in chains? 254 00:21:45,450 --> 00:21:46,956 For treason. 255 00:21:46,980 --> 00:21:51,220 We hoped to appeal to the high king in jesu's name 256 00:21:52,140 --> 00:21:53,916 to show charity for the women 257 00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:57,066 and children displaced by the raiding saecsen. 258 00:21:57,090 --> 00:21:58,866 I will not be lectured to 259 00:21:58,890 --> 00:22:01,983 by worshipers of some sand-starved lunatic. 260 00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:04,833 He was not persuaded. 261 00:22:09,755 --> 00:22:12,006 Of all of your many sins, vortigern, 262 00:22:12,030 --> 00:22:15,213 keeping this man from his work is chief among them. 263 00:22:16,140 --> 00:22:17,290 That's very doubtful. 264 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:21,693 Free these men if you would save your soul. 265 00:22:24,270 --> 00:22:25,270 Save my soul? 266 00:22:28,410 --> 00:22:29,603 Keep it tight then! 267 00:22:31,063 --> 00:22:32,163 I will not! 268 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:35,920 Then I will claim the reward that you have offered me. 269 00:22:37,170 --> 00:22:41,463 Free these men and our debt is paid. 270 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,350 You are a taxing man... 271 00:23:10,256 --> 00:23:11,256 Merlin emrys. 272 00:23:12,510 --> 00:23:17,510 And yet there are few enough who will speak plainly to me. 273 00:23:20,283 --> 00:23:22,648 Thatching! Thatching! 274 00:23:22,672 --> 00:23:24,255 Out past that gate. 275 00:23:25,740 --> 00:23:28,016 Farewell, vortigern. 276 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,283 We will not meet again. 277 00:23:33,330 --> 00:23:36,365 Goodbye, Merlin. 278 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:56,960 Daned! 279 00:24:06,310 --> 00:24:07,310 Who's there? 280 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:14,500 Show yourself! 281 00:24:16,050 --> 00:24:19,000 I wouldn't expect a warrior to turn his back on an enemy. 282 00:24:23,115 --> 00:24:24,115 And now? 283 00:24:25,218 --> 00:24:27,244 And now we know you're no warrior. 284 00:24:44,510 --> 00:24:46,653 Do I look too old to mount a horse? 285 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,175 I know. 286 00:24:54,009 --> 00:24:56,496 I know! 287 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,563 But look at you, myrddin bach. 288 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,086 You are the flower of your race. 289 00:25:04,110 --> 00:25:07,170 Praise god for your long life. 290 00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:30,696 That is enough combat for today, hawk. 291 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,606 Why must you torment me with Latin? 292 00:25:33,630 --> 00:25:35,796 Because the word of the true god is sharper, 293 00:25:35,820 --> 00:25:37,476 even than the two-edged sword. 294 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:39,216 Tell that to the picti! 295 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,616 Tell that to the Irish raider! 296 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,766 I will learn Latin when I'm old like hafgan. 297 00:25:44,790 --> 00:25:47,543 How old do you think me, myrddin bach: ? 298 00:25:47,567 --> 00:25:50,256 You're as old as the oak on shrine hill. 299 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,723 Not quite as old as that. 300 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:54,723 But what is age to you? 301 00:25:56,070 --> 00:25:57,666 You will grow to be as old as any oak 302 00:25:57,690 --> 00:25:59,616 in the island of the mighty. 303 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,589 Does that mean I'll be king forever? 304 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,499 'Tis a great thing to be a king, hawk. 305 00:26:06,523 --> 00:26:07,983 A very great thing indeed. 306 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,993 But there is authority of a kind even kings must bend to. 307 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,706 Discover this, and whether you wear a torc of gold 308 00:26:17,730 --> 00:26:22,743 or a beggar's rags, you will earn the name ambrosius. 309 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:24,860 What does that mean? 310 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:31,088 Study your Latin. 311 00:26:35,532 --> 00:26:36,532 Stay! 312 00:26:40,770 --> 00:26:41,770 Merlin! 313 00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:48,276 We must ride. 314 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:49,700 Vortigern's end is upon him! 315 00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:53,799 Where would you have us go, my lord? 316 00:26:53,823 --> 00:26:56,307 Does pendaran still reign in maridunum? 317 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:04,285 King pendaran joined his fathers many years ago, hawk. 318 00:27:07,050 --> 00:27:08,700 Your grandparents too, my lord. 319 00:27:11,063 --> 00:27:12,230 King elphin... 320 00:27:13,419 --> 00:27:15,710 Lady rhonwyn, cuall... 321 00:27:17,378 --> 00:27:18,378 And hafgan. 322 00:27:20,460 --> 00:27:21,460 Fool. 323 00:27:23,460 --> 00:27:25,746 Lurking up there in your hovel, 324 00:27:25,770 --> 00:27:27,720 haunting the rock wastes like a wraith. 325 00:27:29,610 --> 00:27:32,913 Did you not know that men Mark their years differently? 326 00:27:36,450 --> 00:27:38,529 Does custennin still rule celyddon? 327 00:27:38,553 --> 00:27:40,593 His atlantian blood is strong! 328 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:47,586 But we would-we would not be welcome there. 329 00:27:47,610 --> 00:27:48,803 No, my lord. 330 00:27:51,690 --> 00:27:54,550 Go back the way you came. 331 00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:57,873 I'm not sure what that means. 332 00:27:59,490 --> 00:28:00,490 Neither am I. 333 00:28:09,623 --> 00:28:10,623 Cover! 334 00:28:22,722 --> 00:28:24,193 Now! 335 00:28:49,567 --> 00:28:51,093 Deserters already? 336 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:54,700 Let them fly. 337 00:28:55,860 --> 00:28:57,846 The battle is before us. 338 00:28:57,870 --> 00:29:00,470 And if one of them is the usurper himself? 339 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:08,700 It must be me who takes the tower. 340 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,600 For justice. 341 00:29:17,612 --> 00:29:18,779 For britain. 342 00:29:25,504 --> 00:29:27,894 Archers! 343 00:29:35,799 --> 00:29:38,847 They have come for blood! 344 00:29:38,871 --> 00:29:40,950 Give them blood! 345 00:30:12,514 --> 00:30:14,588 Where is the king? 346 00:30:14,612 --> 00:30:16,402 Vortigern! 347 00:30:18,250 --> 00:30:21,161 Yah! Yah! 348 00:30:36,852 --> 00:30:38,568 Yah! 349 00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:50,997 Vortigern! Vortigern! 350 00:30:57,258 --> 00:30:58,258 Vortigern! 351 00:31:07,114 --> 00:31:08,382 Hold the door! 352 00:31:58,521 --> 00:32:00,310 I need help! Help me! 353 00:32:00,334 --> 00:32:03,224 The cart! Bring the cart! Bring it! 354 00:32:18,092 --> 00:32:19,509 Let the fox burn! 355 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,773 Thus ends the reign of vortigern, 356 00:33:32,910 --> 00:33:34,413 high king of britain. 357 00:33:45,330 --> 00:33:49,410 Hail uther, son of constans! 358 00:34:16,963 --> 00:34:19,639 With me, thanks. 359 00:34:24,877 --> 00:34:29,017 Aurelius! 360 00:34:30,285 --> 00:34:31,285 Aurelius! 361 00:34:32,109 --> 00:34:33,109 Aurelius! 362 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:35,200 Aurelius! 363 00:34:36,225 --> 00:34:37,225 Aurelius! 364 00:34:38,691 --> 00:34:39,691 Aurelius! 365 00:34:40,931 --> 00:34:41,931 Aurelius! 366 00:34:42,956 --> 00:34:43,956 Aurelius! 367 00:34:44,963 --> 00:34:45,963 Aurelius! 368 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,480 Aurelius! 369 00:34:50,029 --> 00:34:51,029 Aurelius! 370 00:34:55,616 --> 00:34:57,033 Hail, aurelius. 371 00:35:29,846 --> 00:35:31,096 An ugly gash. 372 00:35:32,278 --> 00:35:33,445 For britain. 373 00:35:34,353 --> 00:35:37,566 I've never seen my brother bested in battle before. 374 00:35:37,590 --> 00:35:39,096 He fought well. 375 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,056 And my men? 376 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,983 Alive, sire, though somewhat worse for wear. 377 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,986 Sire? 378 00:35:47,010 --> 00:35:49,626 Fashionable honorific for a high king, is it not? 379 00:35:49,650 --> 00:35:51,456 You think me high king? 380 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,576 Do not all the kings of britain sing your praise this day? 381 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,456 I can think of a few singing their own praises. 382 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,459 Some men who marched up with me only hours ago. 383 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:01,709 Well, what does it matter 384 00:36:01,733 --> 00:36:04,506 what a few self-important grumblers think? 385 00:36:04,530 --> 00:36:07,823 Because I need every single one of them to defeat hengist. 386 00:36:07,847 --> 00:36:09,663 The saecsen king. 387 00:36:10,590 --> 00:36:12,276 Those grumblers are all that stand between 388 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:13,800 my rump on the throne and his. 389 00:36:15,990 --> 00:36:18,399 Yours is the preferred rump, my king. 390 00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:22,563 My lord brother, you've only just met this man. 391 00:36:24,090 --> 00:36:25,090 Only just met? 392 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,310 I think not, uther. 393 00:36:32,790 --> 00:36:34,540 I've known Merlin a very long time. 394 00:36:35,883 --> 00:36:38,886 Merlin? 395 00:36:38,910 --> 00:36:39,933 That's impossible. 396 00:36:41,130 --> 00:36:43,683 Merlin was a myth before our father was even born. 397 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:46,810 And yet... 398 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:49,656 Well done, aurelius. 399 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,130 Perhaps you have the makings of a king after all. 400 00:37:00,090 --> 00:37:01,176 Three of the southern kings 401 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,276 never returned to camp this morning. 402 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,246 Yet they're happy enough to see you challenge vortigern. 403 00:37:06,270 --> 00:37:07,270 Aye! 404 00:37:08,130 --> 00:37:10,206 Doesn't mean they're happy to see me high king. 405 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:13,506 It's worse than I thought. 406 00:37:13,530 --> 00:37:16,503 700 men is not a man too many to face hengist. 407 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:19,240 Traitor! 408 00:37:23,460 --> 00:37:25,863 How quickly you trade one master for another. 409 00:37:29,460 --> 00:37:30,460 Meddler! 410 00:37:31,798 --> 00:37:33,606 You know this man? 411 00:37:33,630 --> 00:37:36,480 Aurelius, your prisoner is prince pascent ap vortigern, 412 00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:39,243 son of your fallen foe. 413 00:37:40,650 --> 00:37:42,006 We thought him a mere scout. 414 00:37:42,030 --> 00:37:43,863 You killed my father, bastard. 415 00:37:52,950 --> 00:37:56,973 Your father killed our father. 416 00:37:56,997 --> 00:37:58,203 The debt is now paid. 417 00:37:59,670 --> 00:38:00,670 And mine? 418 00:38:01,620 --> 00:38:03,519 Who will pay the blood price to pascent? 419 00:38:04,448 --> 00:38:06,024 The devil pay you! 420 00:38:06,048 --> 00:38:07,465 Uther, brother. 421 00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:10,656 We came here for justice. 422 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,893 Really? Because I thought we came here for britain. 423 00:38:15,030 --> 00:38:16,626 And every day this scum draws breath, 424 00:38:16,650 --> 00:38:18,246 he's a threat to your reign. 425 00:38:18,270 --> 00:38:20,526 Your brother is right, sire. 426 00:38:20,550 --> 00:38:22,563 Vortigern's son is not a forgiving man. 427 00:38:26,010 --> 00:38:28,836 And yet I will not start my reign a murderer, 428 00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:29,860 as vortigern did. 429 00:38:49,865 --> 00:38:52,615 I give to you your life, pascent. 430 00:38:53,728 --> 00:38:55,678 Do not give me a cause to take it back. 431 00:39:14,790 --> 00:39:17,253 You've made a grave mistake, brother. 432 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,951 And if so, it is mine to make. 433 00:39:46,576 --> 00:39:48,063 He's coming! 434 00:39:48,087 --> 00:39:50,163 How came you by this blade? 435 00:39:54,570 --> 00:39:55,570 Grandfather! 436 00:39:56,965 --> 00:39:58,938 Grandfather, he's coming! 437 00:40:09,083 --> 00:40:10,166 Is he a king? 438 00:40:11,670 --> 00:40:13,127 He's more than a king. 439 00:40:17,828 --> 00:40:20,286 Boy has the eyes of a preying bird. 440 00:40:20,310 --> 00:40:22,056 Stand up straight, lad. 441 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,996 You're being addressed by the dux britanniarum, 442 00:40:25,020 --> 00:40:27,543 commander of all the Roman forces in britain. 443 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:32,583 I knew your father. 444 00:40:35,490 --> 00:40:37,056 Tell me, boy, 445 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,930 what does the son of taliesin see with those golden eyes? 446 00:40:49,454 --> 00:40:51,352 I see a sword. 447 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:54,156 The hilt is silver 448 00:40:54,180 --> 00:40:56,493 and bears a purple gem carved like an eagle. 449 00:40:57,420 --> 00:41:00,001 It's is an emperor's sword. 450 00:41:00,025 --> 00:41:01,775 An emperor's sword? 451 00:41:02,610 --> 00:41:03,966 That's enough, lad! 452 00:41:03,990 --> 00:41:05,140 What else do you see? 453 00:41:06,090 --> 00:41:11,090 I see a ring of kings standing like stones in a circle. 454 00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:14,943 A woman kneels in their midst. 455 00:41:15,870 --> 00:41:18,033 She holds the sword in her hands. 456 00:41:19,650 --> 00:41:23,163 She is speaking but no one hears her, no one listens. 457 00:41:25,020 --> 00:41:26,210 I see the blade... 458 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:30,063 Rusting and forgotten. 459 00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:38,090 Shall we have a song, hafgan? 460 00:41:41,220 --> 00:41:43,224 Indeed we shall. 461 00:41:51,566 --> 00:41:52,566 Be safe! 462 00:42:27,163 --> 00:42:29,613 I never saw Maximus or his sword again. 463 00:42:33,330 --> 00:42:34,774 A remarkable story. 464 00:42:34,798 --> 00:42:36,543 Aye! If it were true! 465 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,780 The sword belonged to my father. 466 00:42:42,630 --> 00:42:45,966 How he came by it, I cannot say. 467 00:42:45,990 --> 00:42:46,990 I do know this. 468 00:42:49,027 --> 00:42:49,836 The paths that brought us together 469 00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:51,243 began long before this day. 470 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,510 I will trust you, Merlin ambrosius. 471 00:42:58,620 --> 00:43:00,728 I would have you my counselor. 472 00:43:01,562 --> 00:43:02,371 By the gods! 473 00:43:02,395 --> 00:43:03,745 I need an advisor, uther! 474 00:43:04,830 --> 00:43:07,586 We're not exactly neck-deep in volunteers. 475 00:43:17,340 --> 00:43:18,837 Very well, aurelius. 476 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:25,536 Let it be as you say and heed the word of your counselors. 477 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,083 The southern kings will continue to desert you. 478 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,386 Dismiss them. 479 00:43:31,410 --> 00:43:32,410 The hell we will! 480 00:43:33,465 --> 00:43:34,465 Uther. 481 00:43:35,430 --> 00:43:36,336 Go on. 482 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,886 Let them return to their own land and see for themselves 483 00:43:38,910 --> 00:43:40,810 what the saecsen raiders have wrought. 484 00:43:41,730 --> 00:43:45,246 Their own people will demand to unite under your banner. 485 00:43:45,270 --> 00:43:47,553 I have friends in the west and north. 486 00:43:48,690 --> 00:43:51,666 I believe we can count them among your supporters. 487 00:43:51,690 --> 00:43:52,970 Master Merlin, I... 488 00:43:55,140 --> 00:43:58,516 I will ride to them and rally them to your cause. 489 00:43:58,540 --> 00:43:59,556 And what are we supposed to do 490 00:43:59,580 --> 00:44:02,586 while you play king-making, Merlin? 491 00:44:02,610 --> 00:44:05,510 I know a place you'll be safe while we build our forces. 492 00:44:08,610 --> 00:44:10,773 This is where it begins. 493 00:44:13,250 --> 00:44:14,493 First, there is a sword. 494 00:44:15,810 --> 00:44:20,810 The sword of britain and the sword is britain. 495 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,508 It is the answer to many prayers, Merlin, 496 00:45:09,532 --> 00:45:12,367 seeing you again. 497 00:45:24,210 --> 00:45:25,930 It's usually you who sets camp 498 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:28,700 while I stare into the fire. 499 00:45:29,970 --> 00:45:32,403 I fear this plan, my lord. 500 00:45:33,818 --> 00:45:36,246 The cymry king will be threatened by your return, 501 00:45:36,270 --> 00:45:37,446 and the north will not help you. 502 00:45:37,470 --> 00:45:41,283 Aurelius has the sword of Magnus Maximus, pelleas. 503 00:45:42,906 --> 00:45:44,573 The emperor's sword. 504 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,073 If you return north, custennin will not help you. 505 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,716 This is how the summer kingdom begins. 506 00:45:52,740 --> 00:45:54,490 My lord, custennin will kill you! 507 00:46:00,243 --> 00:46:01,713 I've seen how you struggle. 508 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:05,763 I've never known your awen to burden you so much. 509 00:46:11,010 --> 00:46:12,910 I'm not the man I once was, pelleas. 510 00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:38,133 Hafgan's harp! 511 00:46:41,580 --> 00:46:43,130 Your own one was... 512 00:46:45,060 --> 00:46:46,060 I know. 513 00:46:53,742 --> 00:46:55,492 I don't remember how. 514 00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,660 Almost 50 years I've carried it. 515 00:47:02,010 --> 00:47:03,460 Still haven't learned a note. 516 00:47:06,542 --> 00:47:07,792 Pelleas, I... 517 00:47:09,103 --> 00:47:11,163 I am not worthy of your sacrifice. 518 00:47:13,020 --> 00:47:14,973 God alone is worthy of such devotion. 519 00:47:17,970 --> 00:47:22,623 As one cares for another, does he not also care for god? 520 00:47:26,370 --> 00:47:27,820 Listen to me carefully now. 521 00:47:29,790 --> 00:47:32,466 You found me and brought me back to the world of men, 522 00:47:32,490 --> 00:47:33,740 and I thank you for that. 523 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,253 But... Let others make their choice! 524 00:47:41,010 --> 00:47:42,010 I have made mine. 525 00:47:46,470 --> 00:47:47,470 Goodnight, my lord. 526 00:47:52,932 --> 00:47:53,932 Goodnight! 527 00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:58,817 My true friend. 528 00:48:08,036 --> 00:48:09,619 Merlin. 529 00:48:14,329 --> 00:48:18,338 Remember what they did to you, my brother. 530 00:49:10,957 --> 00:49:11,957 Ssh! 531 00:51:58,922 --> 00:52:00,447 Come! 532 00:52:58,797 --> 00:53:00,347 Behold your true enemy, o king. 533 00:53:01,709 --> 00:53:02,733 The saecsen hengist. 534 00:53:05,850 --> 00:53:07,700 I've never seen so many. 535 00:53:09,176 --> 00:53:11,843 And this but a raiding party fresh from his plunder. 536 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,930 You will not be able to repeal the barbarian on your own. 537 00:53:17,340 --> 00:53:18,640 Wouldn't you agree, uther? 538 00:53:20,250 --> 00:53:21,756 I'd say we've proven ourselves 539 00:53:21,780 --> 00:53:23,893 more than capable on our own. 540 00:53:23,917 --> 00:53:24,917 Uther! 541 00:53:25,944 --> 00:53:30,516 You slew the usurper vortigern. Not him. 542 00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:32,490 I burned him alive in a tower, uther. 543 00:53:34,339 --> 00:53:36,066 I never even met his blade with my own. 544 00:53:36,090 --> 00:53:36,899 Right! 545 00:53:36,923 --> 00:53:39,666 Well, battle isn't about honor, it's about victory. 546 00:53:39,690 --> 00:53:41,856 There will be no victory 547 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,930 without the kings of britain by our side! 548 00:53:46,381 --> 00:53:48,631 Without Merlin by our side. 549 00:54:43,891 --> 00:54:44,891 Myrddin? 550 00:54:50,376 --> 00:54:51,376 Myrddin! 551 00:55:14,515 --> 00:55:17,190 May the good god be praised. 552 00:55:17,214 --> 00:55:20,739 What god could build such a place? 553 00:55:20,763 --> 00:55:24,397 Not a god, a king. 554 00:55:26,344 --> 00:55:30,877 Behold yns avallach, hall of the faery king. 555 00:55:41,610 --> 00:55:43,776 Praise the lord from the high places, 556 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,276 praise him in halls of light. 557 00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:46,758 Praise him, all his angels. 558 00:55:46,782 --> 00:55:49,200 Praise him, all you hosts of heaven. 559 00:55:49,224 --> 00:55:50,106 Praise him, sun and moon. 560 00:55:50,130 --> 00:55:51,830 Praise him, all you shining stars. 561 00:55:52,904 --> 00:55:54,726 Praise him, you in the sky realms. 562 00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:57,851 Praise him, you waters above the skies. 563 00:55:57,875 --> 00:55:59,515 Let them all praise the name of the lord. 564 00:56:02,046 --> 00:56:03,129 Ave, Maria. 565 00:56:07,237 --> 00:56:09,273 Dafyd! You've come home! 566 00:56:16,140 --> 00:56:17,140 Hello, mother. 567 00:56:19,902 --> 00:56:22,439 Myrddin! 568 00:58:17,467 --> 00:58:20,029 Aurelius's life is in danger. 569 00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,110 Until the kings of britain recognize his claim. 570 00:58:26,990 --> 00:58:29,336 Aurelius has defeated the usurper, vortigern. 571 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,196 He could find sanctuary here 572 00:58:31,220 --> 00:58:33,506 while I ride to rally what friends we have left. 573 00:58:33,530 --> 00:58:35,665 While we ride to rally your friends. 574 00:58:35,689 --> 00:58:36,498 Uther! 575 00:58:36,522 --> 00:58:39,236 To ensure Merlin is not remiss 576 00:58:39,260 --> 00:58:41,010 pushing your claim in other courts. 577 00:58:42,230 --> 00:58:43,569 Fisher king sword. 578 00:58:43,593 --> 00:58:45,939 The sword of a high king! 579 00:58:45,963 --> 00:58:48,806 I do not offer it to aurelius. 580 00:58:48,830 --> 00:58:52,496 Merlin, he will take the torc from my father 581 00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,073 and declare himself high king before he is through. 582 00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,710 Unless we stop him here and now.