A MERLIN VOCABULARY GUIDE

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 ELEN of the SAPPHIRE EYES

Cairpre tells Emrys about his mother.  "There came a day when a woman, a human woman, arrived on the shores of this island.  She came from the land of the Celts, from a place called Gwynedd."  Her name was Elen.
(P.220)

Elen came to Fincayra "because of her love for a man of Fincayran blood ...And soon after she arrived, she discovered yet another love...Books!"

Elen and Branwen are the same person.

 S. M. Smoller, Cullen Memorial Library, Higgins Middle School, Peabody, MA.  June 2004