The Quatrains of Bran

from The Lost Books of Merlin by Douglas Monroe

　

I

IN 462 NEW STARS WILL BURN OVER ALBION

DRACO

A GREAT CITY WILL ARISE AND FALL

WILL ENTER THE WORLD

FIRE FATHERS BROUGHT LOW BY THE QUEENS HAND

II

THE EAGLE SHALL HAVE HIS DAY

TWENTY PLUS ONE ESCAPE THE TYRRANY

IN THE DAWN A SUN-PACT OF BLOOD

A VOICE OF IRON TO CALL THEM FORTH

III

A

ISLAND SON AND ABBOTS BANE

BOY TO MAGIC WILL BE BORN

SEVEN YEARS THE CAVEMANS HEIR

FINAL HOPE AGAINST THE SIEGE

Does this mean Merlin, born on the Island Avalon? A child among cruel superior of an abbey of monks?

IV

THE CELTIC FATHERS, TIME-HONORED

BROUGHT TO THEIR LOWEST LEVEL

CALLED TO RETURN BY A DYING WORLD

AN ARMY HIDDEN FOR FUTURE DREAMS

V

GIANTS IN THE EARTH WILL SETTLE,

SEA-SIDE TOMB WILL TEACH ITS WISDOMS

SUNKEN SHIP WILL FERRY SOME OVER

A NEW LAND WILL BLOSSOM

VI

FROM THE SKY A NEW WAVE BREAKS

FRESH ORDER AMONG THE TREES

ONE BROUGHT BACK TO TEACH THE WORDS

HIS NAME WRITTEN ACROSS THREE BOOKS

Are the three books the bible of the three Christian words?

VII

A SIMPLE BOX OF WOOD WILL BE HEARD

IN GREEN FIELD THE SONG OF SOLOMON,

TWO GREAT SPIRITS UNDER ONE TREE

THEIR DESTINY DIVIDED

VIII

THE WHITE OAK PLUNDERED BY THE BLACK CROSS

CAPTIVES MOVE FROM LOWEST DUNGEON TO HIGHEST TOWER

MIDDLE YEARS THE WORST

2005 RISING OUT OF THE MIRE, 21 VICTORS CLOSE THE AGE

Is this related to the 9/11/2001 attack on the Twin Towers?

VIV

A NEW STATE YIELDS A NEW FOREST

LONE GIANT LEADS AN ARMY OF ELVES,

SHACKLED WITHIN A KEEP OF STEELE

AFTER,

THE BLOOD OF THREE COVERS ALLDoes this relate to the three major closest religions always fighting eachother for being the original: Christianity, Hebrews, Muslims.

X

OF WIND SEA FIRE AND STONE

FIRE SHALL REIGN SUPREME

THE THRICE LOST WILL RE-APPEAR

SON OF SUN

TO HEAL THE DRAGONEngland? Britania? Britton?

XI

THE MOON WILL VANISH THREE DAYS WITHOUT A TRACE

THE SON-GOD WILL FALTER,

THEN WILL A GREAT DRAGON RISE UP

FROM A CITY BEARING THE HORSESHOE FALLS

During the new moon Someone who is of high status will fail at something.

XII

YET THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM,

THOSE WHO WILL LEAD A GREAT PEOPLE

THE SCOURGE PASSES

UNCERTAIN VICTORY AWAITS THE YOUNGER

XIII

THE GREATEST OF NEW PROPHETS

SHALL MAKE DEEPEST FOREST HIS REALM,

WILL WANDER HIDDEN IN HIS FINAL DAYS

ONLY THE

NYC? Apple Isle is an island state of Australia named for its huge apple industry.

APPLE ISLE A SOLACE

XIV

AN

THE DWELLER FROM THE

99 PASSES INTO 2000

TWENTY-ONE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST SHALL BE RE-ARMED

Scientists, Biologists? Government? Lawyers, poloticians, proffessors...some college? River Roe is contained within County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It flows north from Glenshane in the Sperrin Mountains to Lough Foyle, via the settlements of Dungiven, Burnfoot, Limavady, and Myroe.

ARMY OF ACADEMICS CONDEMNRIVER ROE,

XV

THE HAUNTED MOUNTAIN WILL LIVE AGAIN

A NEW LAW IN A NEW LAND,

NOT FAR FROM THE MILLENNIUM

THE ONCE-BURNED SHALL RISE FROM THEIR OWN ASHES

XVI

DARK MOON SUMMONS OLD FRIENDS TOGETHER

ONE FALTERING SUN REKINDLED A WHILE

ARMIES OF FANATICS LOST IN THE MIST

BENEATH THE

AN ANCIENT BOOK IN ANCIENT HANDS

UPON THIS HALLOWED GROUND

A ONCE-GREAT SPIRIT WILL BE AWAKENED

NEWHILL BEGETS A GREAT SPOKESMAN

THE WORLD AGAIN HIS STAGE

Does a meeting of importance New Moon, but will they loose in early mornings mist? Is there an important book in the hands of an apple grower of Sierra Mountain or someone who lives nearby?

APPLE HILL,

XVII

WHEN RULES A SON OF THE DRAGON

BONES OF THE FUTURE KING ARE FOUND

A TOMB BENEATH A STONE

ENDS THE REIGN OF A DREADED QUEEN

Someones child is discovered, dead and gone, who was supposed to be of power while an evil woman holds the power instead?

XVIII

THE

GARDEN, UNHAPPY AND ABANDONED

CRIES OUT AS THE SUN RISES

THE EARH TREMBLES,

ALL AWAIT THE EQUINOX OF AUTUMN

The Garden of Eden?

XVIV

FOLLOWING LONG YEARS OF HOPE

HE WILL NEVER COM IN

ALBION

BORN AGAIN IN THE LANDS OF

COLOMB

THE OLD PROVINCE YIELDS THE NEW FOREST

Albion is an old, old poetic name for England or Great Britain. Colomb is a surname and the last name of a man in the 1700s.

XX

SACRED NIGHT AGAIN OVERCOMES THE

WOODEN CROSS

AN AGE OF RITUAL SACRIFICE ENDS,

NEW CLERGY DON THE WHITE OF OLD

LAW NO LONGER DICTATED BY THE

BLACK BOOKChristianity looses hold on all that is?

XXI

TO SAVE GAIA, A MIGHTY CHALLENGE ISSUED

THE VOICE OF A RARE SONG WILL BE HEARD

SEIZED AND SUNG AMONG GREEN

THE WORLD FORCED TO DRINK SACRED WATERS

XXII.

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD!

TWENTY PLUS ONE FREED FROM THE HUNGER,

DAVID AND SOLOMON RULE ONCE AGAIN

LEGENDS BORN OF THREE GUILDED FLAMES

XXIII

PAST AND PRESENT JOIN WEEPING

A CIRCLE OF STONES TOP

PLUNDERED INTO FOUNDATIONS OF MARY

ISLE LOST TO THE SUMMER SEA

DRAGON HILL

XXIV

GREAT LODGES OF STONE AND TIMBER

OLD NAMES RESTORED TO TWENTY,

FORGOTTEN ORACLES WILL WHISPER AMONG THE TREES

WORDS OF BRAN SHALL LIVE AGAIN

XXV

A TIME OF CONFUSED IDENTITY WILL COME

WOMEN WISHING TO PARTAKE OF MANHOOD

MEN ATTUNED TO THE

LUNAR SEA,

ONE BORN TO WALK BETWEEN

XXVI

FROM AN ANCIENT LIST, THREE COUNTED AS ONE

BY DRAGON SOUGHT IN THE

LAND OF SWEET DEATH

TREE WORDS BURIED WITHIN ONE SOUL

MINED BY A FOREIGN WORKER OF WOOD

XXVII

THEN SHALL A

BELOVED PROTECTOR OF THE BEAR

ROMAN COME FORTH

FALLING FROM THE FROZEN NORTH

HIS LIGHT WILL UPHOLD A GREAT DARKNESS

XXVIII

SEVEN, SIX AND ELEVEN

THE NUMBERS OF THE LETTERS OF THE NAME

THREE RED ONES WILL STAIN THREE PARCHMENTS

AFTER ADJOINING, A GREAT WONDER IS SEEN