1 00:00:04,786 --> 00:00:07,956 Behold taliesin of the radiant brow 2 00:00:07,980 --> 00:00:11,766 and in his voice will be born a kingdom of summer. 3 00:00:11,790 --> 00:00:14,046 Hail, taliesin, I confess I should not like 4 00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:16,416 to miss the chance to fight under your blessing once more. 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:17,936 Then you shall have it. 6 00:00:24,810 --> 00:00:27,456 Your father has given audience to a large group 7 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,166 of strangely dressed britains. 8 00:00:29,190 --> 00:00:30,096 Our father, morgain. 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,206 King elphin ap gwyddno, I present to you my daughter, 10 00:00:34,230 --> 00:00:38,853 the Princess charis savior of our people. 11 00:00:43,597 --> 00:00:45,546 I know the price for the power you display. 12 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:47,858 I'll never spill blood for power. 13 00:00:47,882 --> 00:00:51,508 You will be my bard proclaiming my reign 14 00:00:51,532 --> 00:00:53,404 in the world of men. 15 00:00:58,194 --> 00:00:59,004 Taliesin. 16 00:00:59,028 --> 00:01:03,066 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul. 17 00:01:03,090 --> 00:01:07,871 The treasure is my son, a bard of extraordinary talent. 18 00:01:14,370 --> 00:01:16,472 It wasn't my intention to intrude into your thought. 19 00:01:18,390 --> 00:01:20,390 You intruded it into my soul. 20 00:01:22,384 --> 00:01:24,306 I know what the bull god offered you, 21 00:01:24,330 --> 00:01:26,069 cernunnos has offered me the same. 22 00:01:26,093 --> 00:01:26,903 And? 23 00:01:26,927 --> 00:01:29,916 I made the same choice you did then damn us both. 24 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:34,086 True power is killing what you love, little girl. 25 00:01:34,110 --> 00:01:35,707 Not letting it kill you. 26 00:01:54,992 --> 00:01:56,909 Death before slavery! 27 00:02:23,279 --> 00:02:27,876 Elphin, you can't let this happen. 28 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:30,646 Elphin, no, we don't have to do this now. Come on. 29 00:02:30,670 --> 00:02:32,886 We don't have to do this. 30 00:02:32,910 --> 00:02:33,720 We don't have to do this! 31 00:02:33,744 --> 00:02:36,576 Stay back, stay back, stay back! 32 00:02:37,879 --> 00:02:40,948 You're supposed to be our king! 33 00:03:23,553 --> 00:03:26,478 No! 34 00:03:30,301 --> 00:03:31,541 Annubi! 35 00:03:33,113 --> 00:03:37,711 Help me. 36 00:06:58,480 --> 00:06:59,946 I was with my lord in the heavens 37 00:06:59,970 --> 00:07:02,196 when Lucifer fell into the depths of hell. 38 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:03,906 I carried a banner before Alexander. 39 00:07:03,930 --> 00:07:05,674 In each, I called the stars by name 40 00:07:05,698 --> 00:07:07,604 from north to the south. 41 00:07:07,628 --> 00:07:09,794 I was an architect of nimrod's tower. 42 00:07:09,818 --> 00:07:12,588 I was three times in the prison of arianrhod. 43 00:07:12,612 --> 00:07:16,012 I witnessed the destruction of sodom and gomorrah. 44 00:07:16,036 --> 00:07:18,522 I upheld Moses through the sea. 45 00:07:18,546 --> 00:07:22,770 I was with my lord in the manger of oxen and asses. 46 00:07:22,794 --> 00:07:25,911 I called stars by name from north to south. 47 00:07:25,935 --> 00:07:27,867 I was architect of nimrod's tower. 48 00:07:27,891 --> 00:07:31,344 I received my awen from ceridwen's cauldron. 49 00:07:31,368 --> 00:07:38,368 In the dark times men may find him and see the light. 50 00:07:38,848 --> 00:07:43,848 In the dark times men. 51 00:07:54,562 --> 00:07:58,229 I received my awen from ceridwen's cauldron. 52 00:08:00,006 --> 00:08:01,179 Taliesin? 53 00:08:01,203 --> 00:08:02,946 Some people call me poet and bard, 54 00:08:02,970 --> 00:08:07,416 henceforth I shall be known as prophet taliesin I am, 55 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,633 and my name shall remain until doomsday. 56 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,446 What have you done? My lord, we have done little 57 00:08:13,470 --> 00:08:15,751 but listen to his declarations all night. 58 00:08:15,775 --> 00:08:17,673 Taliesin, taliesin? 59 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,032 There you're, hafgan. 60 00:08:21,943 --> 00:08:25,026 Father, I have met the great light, 61 00:08:25,050 --> 00:08:27,666 the supreme spirit, the lord of all worlds. 62 00:08:27,690 --> 00:08:29,886 There are many spirits, taliesin. 63 00:08:29,910 --> 00:08:31,871 Yet my lord reigns over them all. 64 00:08:31,895 --> 00:08:34,020 I know that gods war for you, son. 65 00:08:34,044 --> 00:08:35,676 My god has died for me. 66 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:39,336 Maybe so, but I need you now. 67 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,163 There are pressing matters at hand. 68 00:08:42,090 --> 00:08:42,900 Pressing matters? 69 00:08:42,924 --> 00:08:46,236 Father, nations not yet born must come to know him. 70 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:47,376 Enough! 71 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,850 We're leaving, boy. 72 00:08:51,180 --> 00:08:52,236 What's happened? 73 00:08:52,260 --> 00:08:54,126 The atlantean king would make slaves of us. 74 00:08:54,150 --> 00:08:55,896 Avallach spoke in ignorance. 75 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,146 Men have had their throats cut for less. 76 00:08:58,170 --> 00:09:00,570 Come. We are no longer welcome in these lands. 77 00:09:45,406 --> 00:09:47,376 The savior of her people should not 78 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,353 be lurking in a crypt. 79 00:09:51,030 --> 00:09:52,080 Don't call me that. 80 00:09:53,405 --> 00:09:56,406 You should not be ashamed of the name you've earned. 81 00:09:56,430 --> 00:09:58,536 Your brother secured the ships. 82 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:00,453 Only because you beset him. 83 00:10:02,820 --> 00:10:04,623 None of us believed your prophecy. 84 00:10:10,260 --> 00:10:13,593 It's a sorry god that demands the blood of his people. 85 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,643 And a sorry people who give it. 86 00:10:22,916 --> 00:10:23,916 And yet, 87 00:10:26,010 --> 00:10:32,316 if I had given myself to bel... No, it was arrogance 88 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:33,813 that doomed Atlantis. 89 00:10:36,210 --> 00:10:37,390 My arrogance. 90 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,540 And would you doom us again? 91 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:47,226 Why have you sent the cymry away? 92 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:51,183 I offered them a great gift, a new start. 93 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,916 Land of their own. 94 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:55,923 You offered them slavery, father. 95 00:10:57,870 --> 00:11:02,403 I only asked that they defend our people. 96 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,736 They are a warrior race after all. 97 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,903 And what are we? 98 00:11:08,310 --> 00:11:12,183 We? We've seen enough war. 99 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:17,080 What you asked would've made them less than a people 100 00:11:18,390 --> 00:11:19,836 and elphin less than a king. 101 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:22,267 King without land is no king at all. 102 00:11:38,048 --> 00:11:40,465 All of this is an illusion, 103 00:11:41,909 --> 00:11:43,803 an echo of a voice that has died. 104 00:11:46,917 --> 00:11:48,693 And soon that echo will cease. 105 00:11:55,170 --> 00:11:56,470 But it has not ceased yet. 106 00:12:04,350 --> 00:12:05,500 Do you love him then? 107 00:12:09,483 --> 00:12:10,733 I don't know. 108 00:12:42,690 --> 00:12:45,051 You ride with purpose, singer. 109 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:47,958 Charis, I had to see you. 110 00:12:49,103 --> 00:12:50,461 And so you have. 111 00:13:02,343 --> 00:13:03,343 What is it? 112 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,930 My people are leaving these lands and- 113 00:13:09,954 --> 00:13:12,454 sh, whatever has gone wrong, 114 00:13:14,379 --> 00:13:17,887 we can make it right, together. 115 00:13:34,097 --> 00:13:35,097 Makieviea. 116 00:13:41,955 --> 00:13:43,205 Why, morgain? 117 00:13:44,150 --> 00:13:45,633 To show you, my love, 118 00:13:48,973 --> 00:13:50,133 I have power too. 119 00:13:52,890 --> 00:13:54,783 Think of what we could be together. 120 00:13:56,721 --> 00:13:57,971 What we could accomplish. 121 00:14:00,535 --> 00:14:02,969 What of your foal? 122 00:14:02,993 --> 00:14:04,773 The one we saved in birth? 123 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,360 I don't hear it. 124 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,733 She's asleep. 125 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,053 I'd like to see. Do not mock my sacrifice. 126 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,523 Men are weak, taliesin. 127 00:14:24,870 --> 00:14:27,070 Unwilling to pay the price for better world. 128 00:14:28,549 --> 00:14:29,549 But not you. 129 00:14:31,380 --> 00:14:33,753 I will do whatever is required. 130 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,826 But you, your gifts come so easily. 131 00:14:38,850 --> 00:14:40,809 Do not presume to know what I have sacrificed. 132 00:14:40,833 --> 00:14:43,563 I would know. I would know you. 133 00:14:44,850 --> 00:14:46,443 I would know your ways. 134 00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:50,163 I would be your wife, taliesin, 135 00:14:51,180 --> 00:14:53,493 your lover, and your queen. 136 00:14:54,690 --> 00:14:56,466 Together we could build the world more powerful 137 00:14:56,490 --> 00:14:57,873 than Atlantis itself. 138 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,993 Atlantis rests the bottom of the sea, morgain. 139 00:15:09,390 --> 00:15:11,916 There is a new power at work in the world. 140 00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:12,940 I've seen it. 141 00:15:13,860 --> 00:15:15,726 A god who does not ask us to sacrifice 142 00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:19,683 what we love, but who sacrifices what he loves for us. 143 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:32,137 I pray you find him. 144 00:17:28,815 --> 00:17:29,815 Charis? 145 00:17:43,135 --> 00:17:45,516 I've never seen these men before. 146 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:46,540 Irish sea wolves. 147 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,726 No doubt they came up mor hafren looking for easy plunder. 148 00:17:51,750 --> 00:17:53,150 Clearly they didn't find it. 149 00:17:55,230 --> 00:17:56,406 If you'd seen me in the bull ring, 150 00:17:56,430 --> 00:17:58,130 you would not look at me that way. 151 00:18:08,551 --> 00:18:10,134 Marry me, charis. 152 00:18:11,827 --> 00:18:12,637 What? 153 00:18:12,661 --> 00:18:14,271 I will not be separated from you, 154 00:18:15,660 --> 00:18:17,073 not by my father or yours. 155 00:18:18,870 --> 00:18:20,013 Then you have heard. 156 00:18:20,850 --> 00:18:22,700 Even now my people prepare to ride. 157 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:26,800 Charis, look at me. 158 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:32,620 I love you. 159 00:18:35,420 --> 00:18:36,636 Do you not speak to me of love. 160 00:18:36,660 --> 00:18:39,423 Why? Are you not worthy of it? 161 00:18:41,580 --> 00:18:44,466 I told you, my life ended out there. 162 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:48,093 But here, charis. Here, it begins again. 163 00:18:50,550 --> 00:18:52,776 We are each given only one life, singer. 164 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,060 No, we're given another 165 00:18:56,190 --> 00:18:57,190 if we'd receive it. 166 00:19:00,780 --> 00:19:03,876 Pretty words, perhaps you should put them 167 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:04,986 in one of your songs. 168 00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:06,500 Charis, listen... 169 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:39,006 Charis, what has happened? 170 00:19:39,030 --> 00:19:41,110 I was attacked while riding. 171 00:19:41,134 --> 00:19:44,166 The cymry, while you show them generosity, 172 00:19:44,190 --> 00:19:46,026 they scheme against you. 173 00:19:46,050 --> 00:19:48,750 He is a fool who can no longer tell friend from foe. 174 00:19:49,994 --> 00:19:52,244 That was not the cymry but the Irish raiders. 175 00:19:54,750 --> 00:19:56,763 Father, I would speak to you alone. 176 00:20:20,670 --> 00:20:22,746 He poisons your mind, father. 177 00:20:22,770 --> 00:20:23,870 You are out of line. 178 00:20:28,498 --> 00:20:29,581 Are you hurt? 179 00:20:31,170 --> 00:20:32,870 Had the singer not been there... 180 00:20:34,380 --> 00:20:36,930 Had the singer not been there, I would not be here. 181 00:20:39,210 --> 00:20:41,796 What reward would you have me give him 182 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:44,976 that compares to what I've already offered his people? 183 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,126 Taliesin seeks no reward, nor would he accept any. 184 00:20:48,150 --> 00:20:49,150 What then? 185 00:20:50,670 --> 00:20:53,226 You must reconsider your offer to the cymry. 186 00:20:53,250 --> 00:20:55,056 Must? 187 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,326 Give them the land unencumbered by any condition. 188 00:20:58,350 --> 00:20:59,196 Must? 189 00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:00,696 We will not survive without them. 190 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,720 Enough! 191 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,953 I know it has been lonely for you. 192 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:18,453 Taliesin is an ally. Nothing more. 193 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:21,880 You swear? 194 00:21:33,810 --> 00:21:37,563 You are not to leave the palace again until they've gone. 195 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,286 You would make me a prisoner in my own home? 196 00:21:41,310 --> 00:21:43,143 We are a noble people. 197 00:21:44,310 --> 00:21:46,626 Our race is a noble race. 198 00:21:46,650 --> 00:21:48,333 It need not be this way! 199 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,273 I will not give my daughter to a barbarian. 200 00:21:55,699 --> 00:21:56,946 If you want to marry, 201 00:21:56,970 --> 00:21:59,823 I will find someone, one of our own kind. 202 00:22:00,870 --> 00:22:02,496 There are many in my brother's house 203 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,053 who would gladly marry you. 204 00:22:06,810 --> 00:22:08,103 Tactfully put father. 205 00:22:08,970 --> 00:22:10,266 I might be more grateful were I one 206 00:22:10,290 --> 00:22:11,290 of your brood mares. 207 00:22:25,230 --> 00:22:26,853 You drove me away once before. 208 00:22:27,810 --> 00:22:28,810 Do you remember? 209 00:22:33,690 --> 00:22:38,043 Please, please, do not drive me away again. 210 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,116 Allow me to go to him freely 211 00:22:43,140 --> 00:22:44,886 so that I may return freely. 212 00:22:44,910 --> 00:22:46,956 This is more bitter to me than death. 213 00:22:46,980 --> 00:22:49,533 No, you cannot bind me to you with false feeling. 214 00:22:53,070 --> 00:22:54,603 I'm dying here, father. 215 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,993 Every day I die a little more. 216 00:23:03,237 --> 00:23:05,133 And I say you shall not leave. 217 00:23:41,490 --> 00:23:44,556 Taliesin, at last. 218 00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:45,906 Father, I must speak with you. 219 00:23:45,930 --> 00:23:47,406 We may speak on the trail. 220 00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:49,026 Tonight there's work to be done. 221 00:23:49,050 --> 00:23:50,496 You would leave so soon? 222 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,056 Not soon enough. 223 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,886 We may mend this rift yet. 224 00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:55,026 I've spoken with charis. 225 00:23:55,050 --> 00:23:55,860 The Princess? 226 00:23:55,884 --> 00:23:57,156 She'll speak to her father on our behalf. 227 00:23:57,180 --> 00:23:58,386 The old fool will not bend. 228 00:23:58,410 --> 00:23:59,676 That is your anger talking. 229 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:00,700 I will not listen. 230 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,356 He's faer folk are just that: 231 00:24:04,380 --> 00:24:09,380 Anemic, weak armed men unwilling to fight for their own. 232 00:24:11,130 --> 00:24:12,513 Don't mince words. 233 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:17,106 We should take the land that we need. 234 00:24:17,130 --> 00:24:18,276 We're not thieves. 235 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,576 No, we're less than thieves. 236 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,856 Father, these people have known war 237 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,866 beyond anything we have ever seen. 238 00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:27,933 They are cowards. 239 00:24:30,060 --> 00:24:32,736 Do you know why avallach walks with a limp? 240 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,926 He was betrayed by his own brother kings 241 00:24:34,950 --> 00:24:36,397 in a terrible civil war. 242 00:24:37,626 --> 00:24:42,186 Avallach was tied face-to-face with his own dead son. 243 00:24:42,210 --> 00:24:45,186 For three long days, he lay in the heat, 244 00:24:45,210 --> 00:24:47,766 in the stench waiting to die. 245 00:24:47,790 --> 00:24:49,053 He's no coward. 246 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:54,576 Enduring hardship does not make one an honorable man. 247 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,800 Is he the one speaking of theft and war? 248 00:24:58,530 --> 00:25:00,966 Why beholdest the mote in thy brother's eye, 249 00:25:00,990 --> 00:25:03,362 but consider not the beam in thy own? 250 00:25:12,810 --> 00:25:13,956 I would be less than a king 251 00:25:13,980 --> 00:25:17,733 if I ignored open insults to our people, taliesin. 252 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,600 It's time to go. 253 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,853 A woman with beauty and spirit, a treasure. 254 00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:47,856 One need not be not be the great taliesin 255 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,256 to see the love written on your face. 256 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,451 It's true. I do love the Princess charis. 257 00:25:56,070 --> 00:25:57,070 I would marry her. 258 00:25:58,861 --> 00:26:00,648 Is she the one who taught you that riddle? 259 00:26:00,672 --> 00:26:03,993 No, old friend. It's from the great light. 260 00:26:05,370 --> 00:26:07,533 I met him in the other world. 261 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:10,896 I see. 262 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,970 He's the one, hafgan. 263 00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:14,463 I'm certain of it. 264 00:26:16,156 --> 00:26:18,823 He lived as a man among men in the east. 265 00:26:18,847 --> 00:26:20,406 Think of it. 266 00:26:20,430 --> 00:26:22,596 I remember the elders telling me of this god man 267 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:23,620 in the east, 268 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,703 but there are many gods. 269 00:26:27,930 --> 00:26:29,466 Would it not be best to worship this one 270 00:26:29,490 --> 00:26:31,146 alongside the others? 271 00:26:31,170 --> 00:26:33,920 Why worship the creature when the creator is present? 272 00:26:36,030 --> 00:26:40,773 And yet to turn away from the gods of our fathers? 273 00:26:46,170 --> 00:26:48,220 I will not abandon the Princess charis. 274 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,993 Your path has ever been your own, taliesin. 275 00:26:56,310 --> 00:26:59,286 Where you came from, no man knows. 276 00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:02,313 Where you are going, no man can say. 277 00:27:17,093 --> 00:27:18,700 But you will be missed 278 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,750 by those who have carried you this far. 279 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,876 You should know the stables would be locked and guarded. 280 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,500 If you were planning on trying to escape the palace. 281 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,127 You sing the bard's song. 282 00:28:28,151 --> 00:28:29,551 I find his music soothing. 283 00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:32,590 Do you not? 284 00:28:39,043 --> 00:28:40,943 I have no quarrel with you, morgain, 285 00:28:45,150 --> 00:28:47,406 but let us have an understanding. 286 00:28:47,430 --> 00:28:50,613 An understanding, how so? 287 00:28:51,540 --> 00:28:52,623 About taliesin. 288 00:28:56,580 --> 00:28:58,353 He has declared his love for me. 289 00:29:06,750 --> 00:29:09,000 And it is his wish that we should be married. 290 00:29:14,940 --> 00:29:15,940 Cowbane. 291 00:29:19,914 --> 00:29:22,146 If you don't cook them properly, 292 00:29:22,170 --> 00:29:23,370 you become their victim. 293 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,893 As if they eat you inside out. 294 00:29:33,270 --> 00:29:35,016 You would have drowned on the shores of sarras 295 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,040 if not for me. 296 00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:38,523 I held you in my arms. 297 00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:42,246 Comforted you in the hull of that wretched vessel. 298 00:29:42,270 --> 00:29:45,426 And am I to thank you for this life that I have, 299 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:47,253 ignored and forgotten? 300 00:29:49,290 --> 00:29:51,036 Shall I revere you like the rest of them 301 00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:52,293 and call you savior? 302 00:29:54,090 --> 00:29:56,635 I forbid you to interfere in my affairs. 303 00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:02,943 But you are choked with doubt, aren't you? 304 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:07,940 You are too sure of yourself. 305 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:15,250 Am I? 306 00:30:17,766 --> 00:30:20,510 Father, don't do this! 307 00:30:22,357 --> 00:30:23,840 Father! 308 00:31:22,796 --> 00:31:24,796 How did you get up here? 309 00:31:25,643 --> 00:31:27,693 What, a bull dancer afraid of heights? 310 00:31:30,690 --> 00:31:31,940 I tried to come to you. 311 00:31:32,940 --> 00:31:34,696 My people are leaving in the morning 312 00:31:38,490 --> 00:31:40,440 and my father has hardened his heart. 313 00:31:42,420 --> 00:31:43,503 We can't stay here. 314 00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:47,046 Our people will not see reason tonight, 315 00:31:47,070 --> 00:31:50,763 but they may yet if we leave, 316 00:31:54,510 --> 00:31:57,603 you would leave your home? 317 00:31:59,490 --> 00:32:01,540 There is no life for me here, taliesin. 318 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:06,760 Not without you. 319 00:32:31,123 --> 00:32:32,760 I would wait till we're married 320 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:37,030 in the way of the christians. 321 00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:41,170 I'm sure I could trust another god, taliesin. 322 00:32:45,510 --> 00:32:46,510 Then trust in me. 323 00:32:50,010 --> 00:32:51,010 Wait. 324 00:33:08,539 --> 00:33:09,936 I had this sword crafted for my father 325 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,433 by the high king's own Smith. 326 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,980 Surely there's no other like it. 327 00:33:20,910 --> 00:33:22,910 Even among my people, it has no rival. 328 00:33:24,090 --> 00:33:25,353 An art lost to the sea, 329 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,200 like everything else about our home. 330 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,473 My father rejected the gift. 331 00:33:32,580 --> 00:33:33,860 We were estranged and... 332 00:33:37,992 --> 00:33:38,992 But now. 333 00:33:40,483 --> 00:33:41,941 I offer it to my husband. 334 00:34:05,577 --> 00:34:06,994 The writing says, 335 00:34:08,167 --> 00:34:09,567 "take me up." 336 00:34:12,117 --> 00:34:13,117 And here, 337 00:34:21,176 --> 00:34:26,176 Cast me aside. 338 00:34:28,906 --> 00:34:30,053 Cast me aside. 339 00:34:31,890 --> 00:34:33,290 You can read our language? 340 00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:36,880 Perhaps it's best to 341 00:34:39,150 --> 00:34:42,513 leave it here with your other belongings, 342 00:34:44,490 --> 00:34:46,727 so your father may be assured of our return. 343 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:58,389 Forgive me, father. 344 00:35:18,644 --> 00:35:20,561 Brother, hey. 345 00:37:48,622 --> 00:37:53,622 In no mine patris, et filii, et spirit us sancti 346 00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:55,020 amen. 347 00:39:30,097 --> 00:39:31,503 Where are you, my love? 348 00:39:35,203 --> 00:39:37,103 A place I've never been. 349 00:39:38,548 --> 00:39:39,548 Free. 350 00:39:43,620 --> 00:39:46,746 Something left me, when I came out 351 00:39:46,770 --> 00:39:48,410 to the water last night, I... 352 00:39:50,250 --> 00:39:52,506 A tormentor who's been my constant companion for 353 00:39:52,530 --> 00:39:53,830 as long as I can remember. 354 00:39:55,350 --> 00:39:58,266 Jesu will not share you with the spirit of the past. 355 00:39:58,290 --> 00:40:00,153 It is for freedom he's made you free. 356 00:40:02,550 --> 00:40:05,313 How is it you know so much of the good god's ways. 357 00:40:06,630 --> 00:40:09,030 Wherever I came from, it was for this purpose, 358 00:40:10,410 --> 00:40:11,410 to know him 359 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:13,960 and to proclaim him. 360 00:40:21,330 --> 00:40:23,103 I have nothing to offer, my love. 361 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,553 No wedding gift but myself. 362 00:40:27,870 --> 00:40:31,205 No home, no lands. 363 00:40:35,430 --> 00:40:38,680 All the world belongs to us, my lady. 364 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:46,850 Then where shall we go? 365 00:40:49,770 --> 00:40:52,476 Dafyd the priest has kin in the west. 366 00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:54,450 Perhaps they'll receive us in his name. 367 00:40:57,990 --> 00:40:59,406 What is it? 368 00:40:59,430 --> 00:41:00,430 I'm not... 369 00:41:01,470 --> 00:41:02,993 What have you found? 370 00:41:06,516 --> 00:41:07,516 A hawk. 371 00:41:09,529 --> 00:41:11,192 A Merlin. 372 00:41:13,349 --> 00:41:14,706 Easy. 373 00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:16,023 I'm trying to help you. 374 00:41:25,102 --> 00:41:26,102 Sh. 375 00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:46,930 What are we going to do with you? 376 00:41:49,050 --> 00:41:53,587 Most wild things cannot be healed, charis, they die. 377 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:00,880 I didn't. 378 00:43:38,281 --> 00:43:43,031 Lord pendaran, the bard taliesin of elphin and Gwyneth. 379 00:43:57,050 --> 00:44:00,286 Do you offer the bird or the girl? 380 00:44:02,430 --> 00:44:04,030 I offer a song, king pendaran, 381 00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:07,416 and greetings from your kinsman, dafyd, 382 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,123 priest of jesu, the most high. 383 00:44:10,860 --> 00:44:12,093 Dafyd is a fool. 384 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,823 He spoke highly of you. 385 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:21,426 Let's just leave. There are others who would welcome us. 386 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,076 It seems king pendaran suffers from a lack 387 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:24,273 of common courtesy. 388 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,746 Worry not, though the cure is painful, it's rarely fatal. 389 00:44:28,770 --> 00:44:32,376 Sing beggar, you're beginning to tax my generosity! 390 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,786 Our most grievous hardship indeed 391 00:44:33,810 --> 00:44:35,704 when one obviously has so little to spare. 392 00:44:45,636 --> 00:44:47,346 Lord pendaran, I know something of these 393 00:44:47,370 --> 00:44:50,121 so-called derwydd holy men. 394 00:44:56,250 --> 00:45:00,243 Any man can play the harp and call himself a bard. 395 00:45:02,580 --> 00:45:05,583 Allow me to prove him before he sings. 396 00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:21,153 Tell me, if you can, 397 00:45:23,910 --> 00:45:29,553 the qualities of the nine bodily humors. 398 00:45:32,010 --> 00:45:34,506 You take unfair advantage, friend. 399 00:45:34,530 --> 00:45:38,453 Druid wisdom does not embrace such hollow falsehood. 400 00:45:38,477 --> 00:45:44,516 The man deems false what he does not know. 401 00:45:46,110 --> 00:45:47,110 Then tell me, 402 00:45:49,530 --> 00:45:52,000 what is the proper sacrifice 403 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,540 to restore virility 404 00:45:58,530 --> 00:46:00,993 and to which god is it made? 405 00:46:02,130 --> 00:46:04,266 There is but one true god 406 00:46:04,290 --> 00:46:06,876 and a true bard makes no sacrifice 407 00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:10,217 for that which can be cured with simple herbs. 408 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:14,469 Herbs, the man says, herbs. 409 00:46:16,530 --> 00:46:19,266 Lord pendaran, the man is a liar. 410 00:46:19,290 --> 00:46:23,103 And worse, he is a blasphemer! 411 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,493 So you are discovered. 412 00:46:28,230 --> 00:46:29,980 You will be flogged and driven out, 413 00:46:33,312 --> 00:46:34,683 but your lady will stay. 414 00:46:38,430 --> 00:46:40,086 If a man can be flogged from your court 415 00:46:40,110 --> 00:46:41,016 for speaking the truth, 416 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:42,786 then I think you've listened long enough 417 00:46:42,810 --> 00:46:44,401 to this false priest. 418 00:46:45,780 --> 00:46:49,386 I will have your tongue, beggar. 419 00:46:49,410 --> 00:46:52,837 Not before I have yours, son of lies, sh! 420 00:46:58,191 --> 00:47:00,758 Hleed ramo felsk! 421 00:47:05,837 --> 00:47:10,129 Hleed rasmo felsk! 422 00:47:11,412 --> 00:47:12,412 Mlur flag in. 423 00:47:16,367 --> 00:47:18,073 Hleed ramo felsk! 424 00:47:23,905 --> 00:47:28,905 Meeko relumi relumi! 425 00:47:30,258 --> 00:47:31,114 Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh. 426 00:47:31,138 --> 00:47:32,166 Relumi! 427 00:47:32,190 --> 00:47:34,643 You may have to learn to speak like a man again, 428 00:47:35,567 --> 00:47:37,536 but at least you'll still have your tongue to do it, 429 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,916 which is more than you'd have given me. 430 00:47:39,940 --> 00:47:41,035 Enough! 431 00:51:21,266 --> 00:51:23,699 I am your servant, king pendaran. 432 00:51:23,723 --> 00:51:26,166 No, no, you are the master of all men 433 00:51:26,190 --> 00:51:27,813 within the sound of your voice. 434 00:51:29,070 --> 00:51:32,553 I stand ashamed and humbled before you. 435 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:42,096 Know by this, taliesin shall reside here as bard to me, 436 00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,693 and you will receive and honor him as your master. 437 00:51:48,390 --> 00:51:49,390 For such he is. 438 00:52:18,795 --> 00:52:21,036 The Merlin is restless. 439 00:52:21,060 --> 00:52:22,898 I believe he's ready to fly. 440 00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:33,192 Should we give him a chance to prove it? 441 00:53:20,470 --> 00:53:22,270 I was raised beyond those mountains. 442 00:53:28,740 --> 00:53:30,990 I've never heard you speak about your home. 443 00:53:32,730 --> 00:53:34,030 We haven't found it yet. 444 00:53:37,073 --> 00:53:38,073 But I see it. 445 00:53:39,270 --> 00:53:42,400 I've seen a land shining with goodness 446 00:53:44,370 --> 00:53:46,986 where each man protects his brother's dignity 447 00:53:47,010 --> 00:53:48,010 as well as his own, 448 00:53:49,050 --> 00:53:52,956 where war and want have ceased 449 00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:59,373 and all men live under the same law of love and honor. 450 00:54:00,390 --> 00:54:01,390 I've seen a land 451 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:04,240 bright with truth 452 00:54:06,030 --> 00:54:07,626 where a man's word is his pledge 453 00:54:07,650 --> 00:54:14,376 and falsehood is banished, where children sleep safe 454 00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,370 in their mother's arms and never know fear 455 00:54:20,359 --> 00:54:21,359 or pain. 456 00:54:22,830 --> 00:54:26,316 I've seen a land where kings extend their hands in justice 457 00:54:26,340 --> 00:54:27,940 rather than reach for the sword, 458 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:35,856 where mercy, kindness, compassion flow like deep water 459 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:36,880 over the land, 460 00:54:38,394 --> 00:54:39,573 and men revere virtue, 461 00:54:40,830 --> 00:54:43,803 revere truth, revere beauty, 462 00:54:44,790 --> 00:54:49,790 above comfort, pleasure or selfish gain. 463 00:54:52,110 --> 00:54:55,266 A land where peace reigns 464 00:54:55,290 --> 00:54:58,416 in the hearts of men and faith blazes like 465 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:00,036 a beacon from every hill 466 00:55:00,060 --> 00:55:02,313 and love like a fire from every hearth. 467 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:04,480 Where the true god 468 00:55:05,430 --> 00:55:08,703 is worshiped and his ways are claimed by all. 469 00:55:11,340 --> 00:55:12,448 It's a wonderful dream. 470 00:55:12,472 --> 00:55:16,959 Nah, it's not a dream. 471 00:55:16,983 --> 00:55:20,618 It's the true world. 472 00:55:20,642 --> 00:55:22,725 But it's not our world. 473 00:55:24,565 --> 00:55:27,515 No, not yet. 474 00:55:30,030 --> 00:55:31,380 It's the kingdom of summer. 475 00:55:33,780 --> 00:55:34,830 The kingdom that will 476 00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:38,766 shine like the suns so that all men may know 477 00:55:38,790 --> 00:55:42,213 and see what the good god intended for it to be. 478 00:55:45,432 --> 00:55:47,349 And I will be its king. 479 00:55:50,979 --> 00:55:54,780 Charis, charis? 480 00:55:58,496 --> 00:56:00,750 Push, push, girl. 481 00:56:19,906 --> 00:56:21,823 Jesu befall me. 482 00:56:29,786 --> 00:56:34,319 Please. 483 00:56:35,330 --> 00:56:36,330 Please. 484 00:56:53,193 --> 00:56:56,516 Hafgan? 485 00:56:58,767 --> 00:57:00,726 Dafyd? What do you here? 486 00:57:00,750 --> 00:57:02,526 We bring news of peace between our people 487 00:57:02,550 --> 00:57:03,753 and king avallach. 488 00:57:04,620 --> 00:57:05,706 Peace? 489 00:57:05,730 --> 00:57:08,436 The atlantean king has repented for his evil 490 00:57:08,460 --> 00:57:10,566 and sought the forgiveness of jesu. 491 00:57:10,590 --> 00:57:12,216 And of your father. 492 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:15,336 He seeks the same from you and his lady daughter. 493 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,330 He offers you his kingdom, taliesin. 494 00:57:19,590 --> 00:57:22,207 You'll be king of the summer lands, taliesin. 495 00:57:23,130 --> 00:57:24,453 The kingdom of summer? 496 00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:29,703 King avallach sends this as a sign of his sincerity. 497 00:57:49,297 --> 00:57:52,472 Lady charis, my wife, 498 00:57:56,271 --> 00:57:57,950 she's not well. 499 00:57:59,912 --> 00:58:01,365 Push it, girl! 500 00:58:07,591 --> 00:58:08,638 I'm here. Push it. 501 00:58:08,662 --> 00:58:09,785 I'm right here. 502 00:58:14,354 --> 00:58:15,489 Move side now. 503 00:58:15,513 --> 00:58:19,540 Hafgan? 504 00:58:31,746 --> 00:58:33,163 Dafyd, dafyd! 505 00:58:37,196 --> 00:58:40,734 Go again, I can see it, lady, push! 506 00:58:40,758 --> 00:58:42,169 Push it out now. 507 00:58:51,252 --> 00:58:55,619 No. 508 00:59:01,077 --> 00:59:02,340 The baby's dead. 509 00:59:04,949 --> 00:59:06,032 No, no, no! 510 00:59:09,572 --> 00:59:12,822 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! 511 00:59:21,596 --> 00:59:24,639 No, no, no, no! 512 00:59:26,973 --> 00:59:31,997 No, no. 513 00:59:32,021 --> 00:59:33,604 No, no, no, no, no. 514 00:59:48,588 --> 00:59:51,171 No, taliesin, taliesin, no, no! 515 00:59:56,373 --> 00:59:58,040 Taliesin? 516 01:00:05,813 --> 01:00:07,979 No, taliesin! Taliesin? 517 01:00:09,434 --> 01:00:10,434 Taliesin? 518 01:00:23,819 --> 01:00:24,819 Jesu! 519 01:00:28,274 --> 01:00:29,274 Jesu! 520 01:00:30,119 --> 01:00:31,119 Taliesin! 521 01:01:08,029 --> 01:01:09,673 God in heaven. 522 01:01:55,379 --> 01:01:58,046 My son has the eyes of a hawk. 523 01:01:59,940 --> 01:02:00,940 A Merlin. 524 01:02:30,634 --> 01:02:31,634 No, no. 525 01:02:32,569 --> 01:02:35,504 Die! 526 01:02:35,528 --> 01:02:37,713 No! 527 01:02:44,076 --> 01:02:47,078 No! 528 01:04:02,970 --> 01:04:06,220 Merlin emrys has returned to the land of the living. 529 01:04:08,130 --> 01:04:10,116 They say Merlin is of the fearful, 530 01:04:10,140 --> 01:04:13,836 my king, they call him endless, immortal. 531 01:04:13,860 --> 01:04:16,596 Merlin was a myth before our father was even born, 532 01:04:16,620 --> 01:04:19,446 but he is legend in these lands. 533 01:04:19,470 --> 01:04:21,603 He's nearly an otherworldly being. 534 01:04:22,740 --> 01:04:26,893 Merlin died long before you and I were born. 535 01:04:29,380 --> 01:04:31,926 A great darkness is falling upon this land. 536 01:04:31,950 --> 01:04:35,316 Until this island is ruled by one, 537 01:04:35,340 --> 01:04:37,206 there will be no peace. 538 01:04:37,230 --> 01:04:40,296 Here is your hope and the hope of our people. 539 01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:44,256 A king will arise to hold all britain in his hand. 540 01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,114 A high king will be the wonder of the world. 541 01:04:52,729 --> 01:04:53,729 You.