"Robert (de Boron) and his continuators also expand upon hints—in the Welsh poem Yr Afallennau (The Apple Tree) and the Life of Merlin—that Merlin has had a lover or wife. […] The pedigree of Merlin’s mistress as the daughter of a landholder favoured by the divine huntress Diana (who is not as chaste in medieval legend as in classical myth) or as an adherent of the Lady of the Lake crowns Merlin’s folkloric roots as Wild Man and forest dweller."[2] (See also John Jay Parry's 1925 translation of The Life of Merlin at sacred-texts.com)
