1 00:00:04,785 --> 00:00:07,979 Behold Taliesin of the radiant brow 2 00:00:07,980 --> 00:00:11,789 and in his voice will be born a kingdom of summer. 3 00:00:11,790 --> 00:00:14,069 Hail, Taliesin, I confess I should not like 4 00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:16,439 to miss the chance to fight under your blessing once more. 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:18,018 Then you shall have it. 6 00:00:22,645 --> 00:00:23,895 Ah! 7 00:00:24,810 --> 00:00:27,479 Your father has given audience to a large group 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,189 of strangely dressed Britains. 9 00:00:29,190 --> 00:00:30,119 Our father, Morgian. 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,219 King Elphin Ap Gwyddno, 11 00:00:32,220 --> 00:00:34,229 I present to you my daughter, 12 00:00:34,230 --> 00:00:38,935 the Princess Charis savior of our people. 13 00:00:43,597 --> 00:00:45,569 I know the price for the power you display. 14 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:47,881 I'll never spill blood for power. 15 00:00:47,882 --> 00:00:51,531 You will be my bard proclaiming my reign 16 00:00:51,532 --> 00:00:53,486 in the world of men. 17 00:00:53,487 --> 00:00:55,038 18 00:00:58,194 --> 00:00:59,026 Taliesin. 19 00:00:59,027 --> 00:01:03,089 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul. 20 00:01:03,090 --> 00:01:07,894 The treasure is my son, a bard of extraordinary talent. 21 00:01:07,895 --> 00:01:12,585 ♪ Hoo-hah ♪ 22 00:01:14,370 --> 00:01:15,209 It wasn't my intention 23 00:01:15,210 --> 00:01:16,554 to intrude into your thought. 24 00:01:18,390 --> 00:01:20,390 You intruded it into my soul. 25 00:01:22,384 --> 00:01:24,329 I know what the bull god offered you, 26 00:01:24,330 --> 00:01:26,092 Cernunnos has offered me the same. 27 00:01:26,093 --> 00:01:26,925 And? 28 00:01:26,926 --> 00:01:28,319 I made the same choice you did 29 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:29,939 Then damn us both. 30 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:34,109 True power is killing what you love, little girl. 31 00:01:34,110 --> 00:01:35,789 Not letting it kill you. 32 00:01:54,992 --> 00:01:56,909 Death before slavery! 33 00:02:23,279 --> 00:02:27,899 Elphin, you can't let this happen. 34 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:30,669 Elphin, no, we don't have to do this now. Come on. 35 00:02:30,670 --> 00:02:32,909 We don't have to do this. 36 00:02:32,910 --> 00:02:33,742 We don't have to do this! 37 00:02:33,743 --> 00:02:36,576 Stay back, stay back, stay back! 38 00:02:37,879 --> 00:02:41,030 You're supposed to be our king! 39 00:03:23,553 --> 00:03:26,560 No, Ah! 40 00:03:26,561 --> 00:03:30,300 41 00:03:30,301 --> 00:03:31,623 Annubi! 42 00:03:33,113 --> 00:03:37,793 Help me. 43 00:04:43,437 --> 00:04:48,437 44 00:06:31,933 --> 00:06:36,933 45 00:06:58,480 --> 00:06:59,969 I was with my Lord in the heavens 46 00:06:59,970 --> 00:07:02,219 when Lucifer fell into the depths of hell. 47 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:03,929 I carried a banner before Alexander. 48 00:07:03,930 --> 00:07:05,697 In each, I called the stars by name 49 00:07:05,698 --> 00:07:07,627 from North to the South. 50 00:07:07,628 --> 00:07:09,817 I was an architect of Nimrod's tower. 51 00:07:09,818 --> 00:07:12,611 I was three times in the prison of Arianrhod. 52 00:07:12,612 --> 00:07:16,035 I witnessed the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. 53 00:07:16,036 --> 00:07:18,545 I upheld Moses through the sea. 54 00:07:18,546 --> 00:07:22,793 I was with my Lord in the manger of oxen and asses. 55 00:07:22,794 --> 00:07:25,934 I called stars by name from North to South. 56 00:07:25,935 --> 00:07:27,890 I was Architect of Nimrod's tower. 57 00:07:27,891 --> 00:07:31,367 I received my awen from Ceridwen's Cauldron. 58 00:07:31,368 --> 00:07:38,847 In the dark times men may find Him and see the light. 59 00:07:38,848 --> 00:07:43,848 In the dark times men . 60 00:07:54,562 --> 00:07:58,229 I received my awen from Ceridwen's Cauldron. 61 00:08:00,006 --> 00:08:01,202 Taliesin? 62 00:08:01,203 --> 00:08:02,969 Some people call me poet and bard, 63 00:08:02,970 --> 00:08:07,439 henceforth I shall be known as prophet Taliesin I am, 64 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,633 and my name shall remain until doomsday. 65 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,469 What have you done? My Lord, we have done little 66 00:08:13,470 --> 00:08:15,774 but listen to his declarations all night. 67 00:08:15,775 --> 00:08:17,673 Taliesin, Taliesin? 68 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,032 There you're, Hafgan. 69 00:08:21,943 --> 00:08:25,049 Father, I have met the Great Light, 70 00:08:25,050 --> 00:08:27,689 the Supreme Spirit, the Lord of All Worlds. 71 00:08:27,690 --> 00:08:29,909 There are many spirits, Taliesin. 72 00:08:29,910 --> 00:08:31,894 Yet my Lord reigns over them all. 73 00:08:31,895 --> 00:08:34,043 I know that gods war for you, son. 74 00:08:34,044 --> 00:08:35,699 My God has died for me. 75 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:39,359 Maybe so, but I need you now. 76 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,163 There are pressing matters at hand. 77 00:08:42,090 --> 00:08:42,922 Pressing matters? 78 00:08:42,923 --> 00:08:46,259 Father, nations not yet born must come to know him. 79 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:47,399 Enough! 80 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:48,850 We're leaving, boy. 81 00:08:51,180 --> 00:08:52,259 What's happened? 82 00:08:52,260 --> 00:08:54,149 The Atlantean King would make slaves of us. 83 00:08:54,150 --> 00:08:55,919 Avallach spoke in ignorance. 84 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,169 Men have had their throats cut for less. 85 00:08:58,170 --> 00:09:00,570 Come. We are no longer welcome in these lands. 86 00:09:45,406 --> 00:09:47,399 The Savior of Her people should not 87 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,353 be lurking in a crypt. 88 00:09:51,030 --> 00:09:52,080 Don't call me that. 89 00:09:53,405 --> 00:09:54,569 You should not be ashamed 90 00:09:54,570 --> 00:09:56,429 of the name you've earned. 91 00:09:56,430 --> 00:09:58,559 Your brother secured the ships. 92 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:00,453 Only because you beset him. 93 00:10:02,820 --> 00:10:04,623 None of us believed your prophecy. 94 00:10:10,260 --> 00:10:13,593 It's a sorry god that demands the blood of his people. 95 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,643 And a sorry people who give it. 96 00:10:22,916 --> 00:10:23,840 And yet, 97 00:10:26,010 --> 00:10:27,779 if I had given myself to Bel... 98 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:32,339 No, it was arrogance 99 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:33,813 that doomed Atlantis. 100 00:10:36,210 --> 00:10:37,390 My arrogance. 101 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,540 And would you doom us again? 102 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:47,249 Why have you sent the Cymry away? 103 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:51,183 I offered them a great gift, a new start. 104 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,939 Land of their own. 105 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:55,923 You offered them slavery, Father. 106 00:10:57,870 --> 00:11:02,403 I only asked that they defend our people. 107 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,759 They are a warrior race after all. 108 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,903 And what are we? 109 00:11:08,310 --> 00:11:12,183 We? We've seen enough war. 110 00:11:13,860 --> 00:11:17,080 What you asked would've made them less than a people 111 00:11:18,390 --> 00:11:19,859 and Elphin less than a king. 112 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:22,267 King without land is no king at all. 113 00:11:38,048 --> 00:11:40,465 All of this is an illusion, 114 00:11:41,909 --> 00:11:43,803 an echo of a voice that has died. 115 00:11:46,917 --> 00:11:48,693 And soon that echo will cease. 116 00:11:55,170 --> 00:11:56,470 But it has not ceased yet. 117 00:12:04,350 --> 00:12:05,500 Do you love him then? 118 00:12:09,483 --> 00:12:10,733 I don't know. 119 00:12:42,690 --> 00:12:45,074 You ride with purpose, Singer. 120 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:47,958 Charis, I had to see you. 121 00:12:49,103 --> 00:12:50,543 And so you have. 122 00:13:02,343 --> 00:13:03,260 What is it? 123 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:09,953 My people are leaving these lands and- 124 00:13:09,954 --> 00:13:12,454 Sh, whatever has gone wrong, 125 00:13:14,379 --> 00:13:17,887 we can make it right, together. 126 00:13:34,097 --> 00:13:35,039 Makieviea. 127 00:13:41,955 --> 00:13:43,205 Why, Morgian? 128 00:13:44,150 --> 00:13:45,633 To show you, my love, 129 00:13:48,973 --> 00:13:50,133 I have power too. 130 00:13:52,890 --> 00:13:54,783 Think of what we could be together. 131 00:13:56,721 --> 00:13:57,971 What we could accomplish. 132 00:14:00,535 --> 00:14:02,992 What of your foal? 133 00:14:02,993 --> 00:14:04,773 The one we saved in birth? 134 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,193 I don't hear it. 135 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:11,733 She's asleep. 136 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,053 I'd like to see. Do not mock my sacrifice. 137 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,523 Men are weak, Taliesin. 138 00:14:24,870 --> 00:14:27,070 Unwilling to pay the price for better world. 139 00:14:28,549 --> 00:14:29,382 But not you. 140 00:14:31,380 --> 00:14:33,753 I will do whatever is required. 141 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,849 But you, your gifts come so easily. 142 00:14:38,850 --> 00:14:40,832 Do not presume to know what I have sacrificed. 143 00:14:40,833 --> 00:14:43,563 I would know. I would know you. 144 00:14:44,850 --> 00:14:46,443 I would know your ways. 145 00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:50,163 I would be your wife, Taliesin, 146 00:14:51,180 --> 00:14:53,493 your lover, and your queen. 147 00:14:54,690 --> 00:14:56,489 Together we could build the world more powerful 148 00:14:56,490 --> 00:14:57,873 than Atlantis itself. 149 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,993 Atlantis rests the bottom of the sea, Morgian. 150 00:15:09,390 --> 00:15:11,939 There is a new power at work in the world. 151 00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:12,773 I've seen it. 152 00:15:13,860 --> 00:15:15,749 A God who does not ask us to sacrifice 153 00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:19,683 what we love, but who sacrifices what He loves for us. 154 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:32,137 I pray you find Him. 155 00:16:43,684 --> 00:16:47,663 Ah! 156 00:17:28,815 --> 00:17:29,648 Charis? 157 00:17:43,134 --> 00:17:45,539 I've never seen these men before. 158 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:46,503 Irish sea wolves. 159 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,749 No doubt they came up Mor Hafren looking for easy plunder. 160 00:17:51,750 --> 00:17:53,150 Clearly they didn't find it. 161 00:17:55,230 --> 00:17:56,429 If you'd seen me in the bull ring, 162 00:17:56,430 --> 00:17:58,130 you would not look at me that way. 163 00:18:08,551 --> 00:18:10,134 Marry me, Charis. 164 00:18:11,827 --> 00:18:12,659 What? 165 00:18:12,660 --> 00:18:14,187 I will not be separated from you, 166 00:18:15,660 --> 00:18:17,073 not by my father or yours. 167 00:18:18,870 --> 00:18:20,013 Then you have heard. 168 00:18:20,850 --> 00:18:22,700 Even now my people prepare to ride. 169 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:26,750 Charis, look at me. 170 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:32,453 I love you. 171 00:18:35,420 --> 00:18:36,659 Do you not speak to me of love. 172 00:18:36,660 --> 00:18:39,423 Why? Are you not worthy of it? 173 00:18:41,580 --> 00:18:44,489 I told you, my life ended out there. 174 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:48,093 But here, Charis. Here, it begins again. 175 00:18:50,550 --> 00:18:52,799 We are each given only one life, Singer. 176 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,060 No, we're given another 177 00:18:56,190 --> 00:18:57,140 if we'd receive it. 178 00:19:00,780 --> 00:19:03,899 Pretty words, perhaps you should put them 179 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:05,009 in one of your songs. 180 00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:06,500 Charis, Listen... 181 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:39,029 Charis, what has happened? 182 00:19:39,030 --> 00:19:41,133 I was attacked while riding. 183 00:19:41,134 --> 00:19:44,189 The Cymry, while you show them generosity, 184 00:19:44,190 --> 00:19:46,049 they scheme against you. 185 00:19:46,050 --> 00:19:48,750 He is a fool who can no longer tell friend from foe. 186 00:19:49,994 --> 00:19:52,244 That was not the Cymry but the Irish raiders. 187 00:19:54,750 --> 00:19:56,763 Father, I would speak to you alone. 188 00:20:20,670 --> 00:20:22,769 He poisons your mind, Father. 189 00:20:22,770 --> 00:20:23,870 You are out of line. 190 00:20:28,498 --> 00:20:29,581 Are you hurt? 191 00:20:31,170 --> 00:20:32,870 Had the singer not been there... 192 00:20:34,380 --> 00:20:36,930 Had the singer not been there, I would not be here. 193 00:20:39,210 --> 00:20:41,819 What reward would you have me give him 194 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:44,999 that compares to what I've already offered his people? 195 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,149 Taliesin seeks no reward, nor would he accept any. 196 00:20:48,150 --> 00:20:48,983 What then? 197 00:20:50,670 --> 00:20:53,249 You must reconsider your offer to the Cymry. 198 00:20:53,250 --> 00:20:55,079 Must? 199 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,349 Give them the land unencumbered by any condition. 200 00:20:58,350 --> 00:20:59,219 Must? 201 00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:00,719 We will not survive without them. 202 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,553 Enough! 203 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,953 I know it has been lonely for you. 204 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:18,453 Taliesin is an ally. Nothing more. 205 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:21,713 You swear? 206 00:21:27,090 --> 00:21:27,923 Mm. 207 00:21:33,810 --> 00:21:37,563 You are not to leave the palace again until they've gone. 208 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,309 You would make me a prisoner in my own home? 209 00:21:41,310 --> 00:21:43,143 We are a noble people. 210 00:21:44,310 --> 00:21:46,649 Our race is a noble race. 211 00:21:46,650 --> 00:21:48,333 It need not be this way! 212 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,273 I will not give my daughter to a barbarian. 213 00:21:55,699 --> 00:21:56,969 If you want to marry, 214 00:21:56,970 --> 00:21:59,823 I will find someone, one of our own kind. 215 00:22:00,870 --> 00:22:02,519 There are many in my brother's house 216 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,053 who would gladly marry you. 217 00:22:06,810 --> 00:22:08,103 Tactfully put Father. 218 00:22:08,970 --> 00:22:10,289 I might be more grateful were I one 219 00:22:10,290 --> 00:22:11,290 of your brood mares. 220 00:22:25,230 --> 00:22:26,853 You drove me away once before. 221 00:22:27,810 --> 00:22:28,643 Do you remember? 222 00:22:33,690 --> 00:22:38,043 Please, please, do not drive me away again. 223 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,139 Allow me to go to him freely 224 00:22:43,140 --> 00:22:44,909 so that I may return freely. 225 00:22:44,910 --> 00:22:46,979 This is more bitter to me than death. 226 00:22:46,980 --> 00:22:49,533 No, you cannot bind me to you with false feeling. 227 00:22:53,070 --> 00:22:54,603 I'm dying here, Father. 228 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,993 Every day I die a little more. 229 00:23:03,237 --> 00:23:05,133 And I say you shall not leave. 230 00:23:41,490 --> 00:23:44,579 Taliesin, at last. 231 00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:45,929 Father, I must speak with you. 232 00:23:45,930 --> 00:23:47,429 We may speak on the trail. 233 00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:49,049 Tonight there's work to be done. 234 00:23:49,050 --> 00:23:50,519 You would leave so soon? 235 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,079 Not soon enough. 236 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,909 We may mend this rift yet. 237 00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:55,049 I've spoken with Charis. 238 00:23:55,050 --> 00:23:55,882 The princess? 239 00:23:55,883 --> 00:23:57,179 She'll speak to her father on our behalf. 240 00:23:57,180 --> 00:23:58,409 The old fool will not bend. 241 00:23:58,410 --> 00:23:59,699 That is your anger talking. 242 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:00,600 I will not listen. 243 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,379 He's Faer Folk are just that: 244 00:24:04,380 --> 00:24:09,380 anemic, weak armed men unwilling to fight for their own. 245 00:24:11,130 --> 00:24:12,513 Don't mince words. 246 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:17,129 We should take the land that we need. 247 00:24:17,130 --> 00:24:18,299 We're not thieves. 248 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,599 No, we're less than thieves. 249 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,879 Father, these people have known war 250 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,889 beyond anything we have ever seen. 251 00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:27,933 They are cowards. 252 00:24:30,060 --> 00:24:32,759 Do you know why Avallach walks with a limp? 253 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,949 He was betrayed by his own brother kings 254 00:24:34,950 --> 00:24:36,397 in a terrible civil war. 255 00:24:37,626 --> 00:24:42,209 Avallach was tied face-to-face with his own dead son. 256 00:24:42,210 --> 00:24:45,209 For three long days, he lay in the heat, 257 00:24:45,210 --> 00:24:47,789 in the stench waiting to die. 258 00:24:47,790 --> 00:24:49,053 He's no coward. 259 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:54,599 Enduring hardship does not make one an honorable man. 260 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,800 Is he the one speaking of theft and war? 261 00:24:58,530 --> 00:25:00,989 Why beholdest the mote in thy brother's eye, 262 00:25:00,990 --> 00:25:03,444 but consider not the beam in thy own? 263 00:25:12,810 --> 00:25:13,979 I would be less than a king 264 00:25:13,980 --> 00:25:17,733 if I ignored open insults to our people, Taliesin. 265 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,593 It's time to go. 266 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,853 A woman with beauty and spirit, a treasure. 267 00:25:46,170 --> 00:25:47,879 One need not be not be the great Taliesin 268 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,279 to see the love written on your face. 269 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,533 It's true. I do love the Princess Charis. 270 00:25:56,070 --> 00:25:56,970 I would marry her. 271 00:25:58,861 --> 00:26:00,671 Is she the one who taught you that riddle? 272 00:26:00,672 --> 00:26:03,993 No, old friend. It's from the Great Light. 273 00:26:05,370 --> 00:26:07,533 I met Him in the other world. 274 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:10,919 I see. 275 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,970 He's the one, Hafgan. 276 00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:14,463 Mm. I'm certain of it. 277 00:26:16,156 --> 00:26:18,846 He lived as a man among men in the east. 278 00:26:18,847 --> 00:26:20,429 Think of it. 279 00:26:20,430 --> 00:26:22,619 I remember the elders telling me of this God Man 280 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:23,453 in the east, 281 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,703 but there are many gods. 282 00:26:27,930 --> 00:26:29,489 Would it not be best to worship this one 283 00:26:29,490 --> 00:26:31,169 alongside the others? 284 00:26:31,170 --> 00:26:33,920 Why worship the creature when the creator is present? 285 00:26:36,030 --> 00:26:40,773 And yet to turn away from the gods of our fathers? 286 00:26:46,170 --> 00:26:48,220 I will not abandon the Princess Charis. 287 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,993 Your path has ever been your own, Taliesin. 288 00:26:56,310 --> 00:26:59,309 Where you came from, no man knows. 289 00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:02,313 Where you are going, no man can say. 290 00:27:17,093 --> 00:27:18,700 But you will be missed 291 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,750 by those who have carried you this far. 292 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,899 You should know the stables would be locked and guarded. 293 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,500 If you were planning on trying to escape the palace. 294 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,150 You sing the bard's song. 295 00:28:28,151 --> 00:28:29,551 I find his music soothing. 296 00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:32,523 Do you not? 297 00:28:39,043 --> 00:28:40,943 I have no quarrel with you, Morgian, 298 00:28:45,150 --> 00:28:47,429 but let us have an understanding. 299 00:28:47,430 --> 00:28:50,613 An understanding, how so? 300 00:28:51,540 --> 00:28:52,623 About Taliesin. 301 00:28:56,580 --> 00:28:58,353 He has declared his love for me. 302 00:29:06,750 --> 00:29:09,000 And it is his wish that we should be married. 303 00:29:14,940 --> 00:29:15,773 Cowbane. 304 00:29:19,914 --> 00:29:22,169 If you don't cook them properly, 305 00:29:22,170 --> 00:29:23,370 you become their victim. 306 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,893 As if they eat you inside out. 307 00:29:33,270 --> 00:29:35,039 You would have drowned on the shores of Sarras 308 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:35,883 if not for me. 309 00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:38,523 I held you in my arms. 310 00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:42,269 Comforted you in the hull of that wretched vessel. 311 00:29:42,270 --> 00:29:45,449 And am I to thank you for this life that I have, 312 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:47,253 ignored and forgotten? 313 00:29:49,290 --> 00:29:51,059 Shall I revere you like the rest of them 314 00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:52,293 and call you savior? 315 00:29:54,090 --> 00:29:56,658 I forbid you to interfere in my affairs. 316 00:29:56,659 --> 00:29:57,492 Oh. 317 00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:02,943 But you are choked with doubt, aren't you? 318 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:07,940 You are too sure of yourself. 319 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:15,083 Am I? 320 00:30:17,766 --> 00:30:20,592 Father, don't do this! 321 00:30:22,357 --> 00:30:23,922 Father! 322 00:31:22,796 --> 00:31:24,796 How did you get up here? 323 00:31:25,643 --> 00:31:27,693 What, a bull dancer afraid of heights? 324 00:31:30,690 --> 00:31:31,940 I tried to come to you. 325 00:31:32,940 --> 00:31:34,680 My people are leaving in the morning 326 00:31:38,490 --> 00:31:40,440 And my father has hardened his heart. 327 00:31:42,420 --> 00:31:43,503 We can't stay here. 328 00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:47,069 Our people will not see reason tonight, 329 00:31:47,070 --> 00:31:50,763 but they may yet if we leave, 330 00:31:54,510 --> 00:31:57,603 You would leave your home? 331 00:31:59,490 --> 00:32:01,540 There is no life for me here, Taliesin. 332 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:06,633 Not without you. 333 00:32:31,123 --> 00:32:32,760 I would wait till we're married 334 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:37,030 in the way of the Christians. 335 00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:41,170 I'm sure I could trust another god, Taliesin. 336 00:32:45,510 --> 00:32:46,460 Then trust in me. 337 00:32:50,010 --> 00:32:50,843 Wait. 338 00:33:08,539 --> 00:33:09,959 I had this sword crafted for my father 339 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,433 by the High King's own smith. 340 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,980 Surely there's no other like it. 341 00:33:20,910 --> 00:33:22,910 Even among my people, it has no rival. 342 00:33:24,090 --> 00:33:25,353 An art lost to the sea, 343 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,200 like everything else about our home. 344 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,473 My father rejected the gift. 345 00:33:32,580 --> 00:33:33,860 We were estranged and... 346 00:33:37,992 --> 00:33:38,825 But now 347 00:33:40,483 --> 00:33:41,941 I offer it to my husband. 348 00:34:05,577 --> 00:34:06,994 The writing says, 349 00:34:08,167 --> 00:34:09,567 "Take me up." 350 00:34:12,117 --> 00:34:12,950 And here, 351 00:34:21,176 --> 00:34:26,176 Cast me aside. 352 00:34:28,906 --> 00:34:30,053 Cast me aside. 353 00:34:31,890 --> 00:34:33,290 You can read our language? 354 00:34:35,580 --> 00:34:36,880 Perhaps it's best to 355 00:34:39,150 --> 00:34:42,513 leave it here with your other belongings, 356 00:34:44,490 --> 00:34:46,727 so your father may be assured of our return. 357 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:58,389 Forgive me, Father. 358 00:35:18,644 --> 00:35:20,561 Brother, hey. 359 00:37:48,622 --> 00:37:53,622 In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti 360 00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:54,853 Amen. 361 00:39:30,097 --> 00:39:31,503 Where are you, my love? 362 00:39:35,203 --> 00:39:37,103 A place I've never been. 363 00:39:38,548 --> 00:39:39,381 Free. 364 00:39:43,620 --> 00:39:46,769 Something left me, when I came out 365 00:39:46,770 --> 00:39:48,410 to the water last night, I... 366 00:39:50,250 --> 00:39:52,529 A tormentor who's been my constant companion for 367 00:39:52,530 --> 00:39:53,830 as long as I can remember. 368 00:39:55,350 --> 00:39:58,289 Jesu will not share you with the spirit of the past. 369 00:39:58,290 --> 00:40:00,153 It is for freedom He's made you free. 370 00:40:02,550 --> 00:40:05,313 How is it you know so much of the Good God's ways. 371 00:40:06,630 --> 00:40:09,030 Wherever I came from, it was for this purpose, 372 00:40:10,410 --> 00:40:11,243 to know Him 373 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:13,960 and to proclaim Him. 374 00:40:21,330 --> 00:40:23,103 I have nothing to offer, my love. 375 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,553 No wedding gift but myself. 376 00:40:27,870 --> 00:40:31,287 No home, no lands. 377 00:40:35,430 --> 00:40:38,680 All the world belongs to us, my lady. 378 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:46,850 Then where shall we go? 379 00:40:49,770 --> 00:40:52,499 Dafyd the priest has kin in the west. 380 00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:54,450 Perhaps they'll receive us in his name. 381 00:40:57,990 --> 00:40:59,429 What is it? 382 00:40:59,430 --> 00:41:00,263 I'm not... 383 00:41:01,470 --> 00:41:02,993 What have you found? 384 00:41:06,516 --> 00:41:07,349 A hawk. 385 00:41:09,529 --> 00:41:11,274 A merlin. 386 00:41:13,349 --> 00:41:14,729 Ah! Easy. 387 00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:16,023 I'm trying to help you. 388 00:41:25,102 --> 00:41:25,935 Sh. 389 00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:46,930 What are we going to do with you? 390 00:41:49,050 --> 00:41:53,587 Most wild things cannot be healed, Charis, they die. 391 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:00,797 I didn't. 392 00:43:38,281 --> 00:43:43,031 Lord Pendaran, the bard Taliesin of Elphin and Gwyneth. 393 00:43:57,050 --> 00:44:00,368 Do you offer the bird or the girl? 394 00:44:02,430 --> 00:44:04,030 I offer a song, King Pendaran, 395 00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:07,439 and greetings from your kinsman, Dafyd, 396 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,123 priest of Jesu, the Most High. 397 00:44:10,860 --> 00:44:12,093 Dafyd is a fool. 398 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,823 He spoke highly of you. 399 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:21,449 Let's just leave. There are others who would welcome us. 400 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,099 It seems King Pendaran suffers from a lack 401 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:24,273 of common courtesy. 402 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,769 Worry not, though the cure is painful, it's rarely fatal. 403 00:44:28,770 --> 00:44:32,399 Sing beggar, you're beginning to tax my generosity! 404 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,809 Our most grievous hardship indeed 405 00:44:33,810 --> 00:44:35,786 when one obviously has so little to spare. 406 00:44:45,636 --> 00:44:47,369 Lord Pendaran, I know something of these 407 00:44:47,370 --> 00:44:50,203 so-called derwydd holy men. 408 00:44:56,250 --> 00:45:00,243 Any man can play the harp and call himself a bard. 409 00:45:02,580 --> 00:45:05,583 Allow me to prove him before he sings. 410 00:45:18,300 --> 00:45:21,153 Tell me, if you can, 411 00:45:23,910 --> 00:45:26,799 the qualities of the 412 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,553 nine bodily humors. 413 00:45:32,010 --> 00:45:34,529 You take unfair advantage, friend. 414 00:45:34,530 --> 00:45:38,476 Druid wisdom does not embrace such hollow falsehood. 415 00:45:38,477 --> 00:45:42,149 The man deems false 416 00:45:42,150 --> 00:45:44,598 what he does not know. 417 00:45:46,110 --> 00:45:47,073 Then tell me, 418 00:45:49,530 --> 00:45:52,000 what is the proper sacrifice 419 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,540 to restore virility 420 00:45:58,530 --> 00:46:00,993 and to which god is it made? 421 00:46:02,130 --> 00:46:04,289 There is but one True God 422 00:46:04,290 --> 00:46:06,899 and a true bard makes no sacrifice 423 00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:10,299 for that which can be cured with simple herbs. 424 00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:14,551 Herbs, the man says, herbs. 425 00:46:16,530 --> 00:46:19,289 Lord Pendaran, the man is a liar. 426 00:46:19,290 --> 00:46:23,103 And worse, he is a blasphemer! 427 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,493 So you are discovered. 428 00:46:28,230 --> 00:46:29,980 You will be flogged and driven out, 429 00:46:33,312 --> 00:46:34,683 but your lady will stay. 430 00:46:38,430 --> 00:46:40,109 If a man can be flogged from your court 431 00:46:40,110 --> 00:46:41,039 for speaking the truth, 432 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:42,809 then I think you've listened long enough 433 00:46:42,810 --> 00:46:44,483 to this false priest. 434 00:46:45,780 --> 00:46:49,409 I will have your tongue, beggar. 435 00:46:49,410 --> 00:46:52,837 Not before I have yours, son of lies, sh! 436 00:46:58,191 --> 00:47:00,758 Hleed ramo felsk! 437 00:47:05,837 --> 00:47:10,129 Hleed rasmo felsk! 438 00:47:11,412 --> 00:47:12,245 Mlur flagin. 439 00:47:16,367 --> 00:47:18,073 Hleed ramo felsk! 440 00:47:23,905 --> 00:47:28,905 Meeko relumi relumi! 441 00:47:30,258 --> 00:47:31,137 Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh. 442 00:47:31,138 --> 00:47:32,189 Relumi! 443 00:47:32,190 --> 00:47:34,643 You may have to learn to speak like a man again, 444 00:47:35,567 --> 00:47:37,559 but at least you'll still have your tongue to do it, 445 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,939 which is more than you'd have given me. 446 00:47:39,940 --> 00:47:41,117 Enough! 447 00:47:54,429 --> 00:47:59,367 ♪ Summer light in time recedes ♪ 448 00:47:59,368 --> 00:48:01,899 ♪ The cold air claims ♪ 449 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:04,295 ♪ The leaves, the leaves ♪ 450 00:48:04,296 --> 00:48:07,076 ♪ And many a woman ♪ 451 00:48:07,077 --> 00:48:09,798 ♪ Who waits for word ♪ 452 00:48:09,799 --> 00:48:14,799 ♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪ 453 00:48:15,094 --> 00:48:20,094 ♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪ 454 00:48:22,098 --> 00:48:25,163 ♪ Math ap Mathonwy ♪ 455 00:48:25,164 --> 00:48:27,706 ♪ Ruled the western lands ♪ 456 00:48:27,707 --> 00:48:32,707 ♪ Gwynedd, Dyfed, and Lloeger in his hands ♪ 457 00:48:33,155 --> 00:48:37,843 ♪ All his eyes be held, be held ♪ 458 00:48:37,844 --> 00:48:42,844 ♪ And all the people were his realm ♪ 459 00:48:42,956 --> 00:48:48,040 ♪ When the dew of creation ♪ 460 00:48:48,041 --> 00:48:53,041 ♪ Was still fresh upon the land ♪ 461 00:48:56,510 --> 00:49:01,510 ♪ The fair maiden, Goewin was her name ♪ 462 00:49:01,737 --> 00:49:06,767 ♪ From Don Pebin, westward then she came ♪ 463 00:49:06,768 --> 00:49:11,525 ♪ Offering it seemed, it seemed ♪ 464 00:49:11,526 --> 00:49:16,526 ♪ Life eternal to the king ♪ 465 00:49:16,935 --> 00:49:21,675 ♪ As long as that sweet virgin ♪ 466 00:49:21,676 --> 00:49:26,676 ♪ Held his feet and knew no shame ♪ 467 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:34,730 ♪ Summer light in time recedes ♪ 468 00:49:34,731 --> 00:49:37,727 ♪ The cold air claims ♪ 469 00:49:37,728 --> 00:49:39,972 ♪ The leaves, the leaves ♪ 470 00:49:39,973 --> 00:49:43,374 ♪ And many a woman ♪ 471 00:49:43,375 --> 00:49:46,452 ♪ Waits for word the cost ♪ 472 00:49:46,453 --> 00:49:50,608 ♪ Of the fighting season ♪ 473 00:49:50,609 --> 00:49:55,609 ♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪ 474 00:49:58,297 --> 00:50:03,167 ♪ Math came home from war only to find ♪ 475 00:50:03,168 --> 00:50:08,220 ♪ His maiden's magic had in fighting time ♪ 476 00:50:08,221 --> 00:50:11,349 ♪ Been claimed by force ♪ 477 00:50:11,350 --> 00:50:13,602 ♪ By force and guile ♪ 478 00:50:13,603 --> 00:50:18,498 ♪ The magic stolen from fair child ♪ 479 00:50:18,499 --> 00:50:20,968 ♪ Now neither king ♪ 480 00:50:20,969 --> 00:50:23,898 ♪ Nor lass would know ♪ 481 00:50:23,899 --> 00:50:28,899 ♪ The life of olden times ♪ 482 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,739 ♪ Summer light in time recedes ♪ 483 00:50:36,740 --> 00:50:39,257 ♪ The cold air claims ♪ 484 00:50:39,258 --> 00:50:41,863 ♪ The leaves, the leaves ♪ 485 00:50:41,864 --> 00:50:46,864 ♪ And many a woman awaits for word ♪ 486 00:50:47,582 --> 00:50:56,562 ♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪ 487 00:51:21,266 --> 00:51:23,722 I am your servant, King Pendaran. 488 00:51:23,723 --> 00:51:26,189 No, no, you are the master of all men 489 00:51:26,190 --> 00:51:27,813 within the sound of your voice. 490 00:51:29,070 --> 00:51:32,553 I stand ashamed and humbled before you. 491 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:40,229 Know by this, Taliesin shall reside here 492 00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:42,119 as bard to me, 493 00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,549 and you will receive and honor him 494 00:51:44,550 --> 00:51:45,693 as your master. 495 00:51:48,390 --> 00:51:49,293 For such he is. 496 00:52:18,795 --> 00:52:21,059 The merlin is restless. 497 00:52:21,060 --> 00:52:22,980 I believe he's ready to fly. 498 00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:33,274 Should we give him a chance to prove it? 499 00:53:20,470 --> 00:53:22,270 I was raised beyond those mountains. 500 00:53:28,740 --> 00:53:30,990 I've never heard you speak about your home. 501 00:53:32,730 --> 00:53:34,030 We haven't found it yet. 502 00:53:37,073 --> 00:53:37,906 But I see it. 503 00:53:39,270 --> 00:53:42,400 I've seen a land shining with goodness 504 00:53:44,370 --> 00:53:47,009 where each man protects his brother's dignity 505 00:53:47,010 --> 00:53:47,960 as well as his own, 506 00:53:49,050 --> 00:53:52,979 where war and want have ceased 507 00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:56,369 and all men live under the same law 508 00:53:56,370 --> 00:53:59,373 of love and honor. 509 00:54:00,390 --> 00:54:01,330 I've seen a land 510 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:04,240 bright with truth 511 00:54:06,030 --> 00:54:07,649 where a man's word is his pledge 512 00:54:07,650 --> 00:54:10,649 and falsehood is banished, 513 00:54:10,650 --> 00:54:14,399 where children sleep safe 514 00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:15,449 in their mother's arms 515 00:54:15,450 --> 00:54:18,370 and never know fear 516 00:54:20,359 --> 00:54:21,192 or pain. 517 00:54:22,830 --> 00:54:26,339 I've seen a land where kings extend their hands in justice 518 00:54:26,340 --> 00:54:27,940 rather than reach for the sword, 519 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,429 where mercy, kindness, 520 00:54:32,430 --> 00:54:35,879 compassion flow like deep water 521 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:36,713 over the land, 522 00:54:38,394 --> 00:54:39,573 and men revere virtue, 523 00:54:40,830 --> 00:54:43,803 revere truth, revere beauty, 524 00:54:44,790 --> 00:54:49,790 above comfort, pleasure or selfish gain. 525 00:54:52,110 --> 00:54:55,289 A land where peace reigns 526 00:54:55,290 --> 00:54:58,439 in the hearts of men and faith blazes like 527 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:00,059 a beacon from every hill 528 00:55:00,060 --> 00:55:02,313 and love like a fire from every hearth. 529 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:04,480 Where the True God 530 00:55:05,430 --> 00:55:08,703 is worshiped and His ways are claimed by all. 531 00:55:11,340 --> 00:55:12,471 It's a wonderful dream. 532 00:55:12,472 --> 00:55:16,982 Nah, it's not a dream. 533 00:55:16,983 --> 00:55:20,641 It's the true world. 534 00:55:20,642 --> 00:55:22,725 But it's not our world. 535 00:55:24,565 --> 00:55:27,515 No, not yet. 536 00:55:30,030 --> 00:55:31,380 It's the Kingdom of Summer. 537 00:55:33,780 --> 00:55:34,830 The kingdom that will 538 00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:38,789 shine like the suns so that all men may know 539 00:55:38,790 --> 00:55:42,213 and see what the Good God intended for it to be. 540 00:55:45,432 --> 00:55:47,349 And I will be its king. 541 00:55:50,979 --> 00:55:54,862 Charis, Charis? 542 00:55:58,496 --> 00:56:00,832 Push, push, girl. 543 00:56:19,906 --> 00:56:21,823 Jesu befall me. 544 00:56:29,786 --> 00:56:34,319 Please. 545 00:56:35,330 --> 00:56:36,163 Please. 546 00:56:53,193 --> 00:56:56,598 Hafgan? 547 00:56:58,767 --> 00:57:00,749 Dafyd? What do you here? 548 00:57:00,750 --> 00:57:02,549 We bring news of peace between our people 549 00:57:02,550 --> 00:57:03,753 and King Avallach. 550 00:57:04,620 --> 00:57:05,729 Peace? 551 00:57:05,730 --> 00:57:08,459 The Atlantean king has repented for his evil 552 00:57:08,460 --> 00:57:10,589 and sought the forgiveness of Jesu. 553 00:57:10,590 --> 00:57:12,239 And of your father. 554 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:15,359 He seeks the same from you and his lady daughter. 555 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,412 He offers you his kingdom, Taliesin. 556 00:57:19,590 --> 00:57:22,207 You'll be king of the Summerlands, Taliesin. 557 00:57:23,130 --> 00:57:24,453 The Kingdom of Summer? 558 00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:29,703 King Avallach sends this as a sign of his sincerity. 559 00:57:49,297 --> 00:57:52,472 Lady Charis, my wife, 560 00:57:56,271 --> 00:57:58,032 she's not well. 561 00:57:59,912 --> 00:58:01,447 Push it, girl! 562 00:58:07,591 --> 00:58:08,661 I'm here. Push it. 563 00:58:08,662 --> 00:58:09,808 I'm right here. 564 00:58:09,809 --> 00:58:10,642 Ah, ah! 565 00:58:14,354 --> 00:58:15,512 Move aside now. 566 00:58:15,513 --> 00:58:19,622 Ah! Hafgan? 567 00:58:21,767 --> 00:58:26,767 Ah, ah! 568 00:58:31,746 --> 00:58:33,163 Dafyd, Dafyd, ah! 569 00:58:37,196 --> 00:58:40,757 Go again, I can see it, lady, push! 570 00:58:40,758 --> 00:58:42,251 Push it out now. 571 00:58:51,252 --> 00:58:55,619 No. 572 00:59:01,077 --> 00:59:02,340 The baby's dead. 573 00:59:04,949 --> 00:59:06,032 No, no, no! 574 00:59:09,572 --> 00:59:12,822 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! 575 00:59:21,596 --> 00:59:24,721 No, no, no, no! 576 00:59:26,973 --> 00:59:32,020 No, no. 577 00:59:32,021 --> 00:59:33,604 No, no, no, no, no. 578 00:59:48,588 --> 00:59:51,171 No, Taliesin, Taliesin, no, no! 579 00:59:56,373 --> 00:59:58,040 Taliesin? 580 01:00:05,812 --> 01:00:07,979 No, Taliesin! Taliesin? 581 01:00:09,434 --> 01:00:10,267 Taliesin? 582 01:00:23,819 --> 01:00:24,652 Jesu! 583 01:00:28,274 --> 01:00:29,107 Jesu! 584 01:00:30,119 --> 01:00:31,036 Taliesin! 585 01:01:08,029 --> 01:01:09,755 God in heaven. 586 01:01:55,379 --> 01:01:58,046 My son has the eyes of a hawk. 587 01:01:59,940 --> 01:02:00,857 A merlin. 588 01:02:30,634 --> 01:02:31,467 No, no. 589 01:02:32,569 --> 01:02:35,527 Die! 590 01:02:35,528 --> 01:02:37,795 No! 591 01:02:44,076 --> 01:02:47,160 No! 592 01:05:39,970 --> 01:05:41,919 Merlin Emrys has returned 593 01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:43,220 to the land of the living. 594 01:05:45,130 --> 01:05:47,139 They say Merlin is of the fearful, 595 01:05:47,140 --> 01:05:50,859 my king, they call him endless, immortal. 596 01:05:50,860 --> 01:05:53,619 Merlin was a myth before our father was even born, 597 01:05:53,620 --> 01:05:56,469 but he is legend in these lands. 598 01:05:56,470 --> 01:05:58,603 He's nearly an otherworldly being. 599 01:05:59,740 --> 01:06:01,809 Merlin died long before you 600 01:06:01,810 --> 01:06:03,893 and I were born. 601 01:06:06,380 --> 01:06:08,949 A great darkness is falling upon this land. 602 01:06:08,950 --> 01:06:12,339 Until this island is ruled by one, 603 01:06:12,340 --> 01:06:14,229 there will be no peace. 604 01:06:14,230 --> 01:06:17,319 Here is your hope and the hope of our people. 605 01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:21,279 A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand. 606 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:24,196 A high king will be the wonder of the world. 607 01:06:29,729 --> 01:06:30,562 You.