How Merlin was born

This is another fragment of Merlin's Story, taken from the book I mentioned in my previous entry.

De commo e en que manera nascio Merlin.
Asy fue aquel moço nado. Quando las mujieres le rrescebieron del vientre de su madre, non ovo y tal que non ovyese y grand miedo; ca lo vieron mas velloso e de mayor cabello que ningund moço que viesen. E mostraronlo a la madre. E quando lo ella vyo, sinose e dixo: Espanto me filla deste moço. E ellas dixieron: Tan grande es que aduro lo podemos tener. E mandoles la madre quel diciesen y yuso e que lo batizasen. E ellas le dixieron: Como le pornemos nonbre? E la madre dixo: Ponetle nombre Merlin commo a su avuelo. E ellas fueron a la feniestra e metieronlo en el çesto por do les sobian que comiesen. E descendieronlo por una cuerda ayuso e mandaron que lo batizasen e quel posiesen nombre Merlin.

Merlin seems to have been very big and had very long hair, so that all the women were surprised. The mother chose the baby's name after his grandfather and the assisting women immediately descended the newborn in a basket, down the window, to have someone baptize him.
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