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who questioned the historical origins of Merlin, concluded that the legend was fabricated to retroactively explain the name of the town). The name Carmarthen is derived from the town's previous Roman name Moridunum, which was in turn derived from the Celtic Brittonic moridunon, 'sea fort[ress]'. Eric P. Hamp proposed a similar etymology: Morij:n, 'the maritime' or 'born of the sea'. There is no obvious connection between Merlin and the sea in the texts about

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