Talk:Nimueh/@comment-5659316-20121025192743

"There is little similarity between the Nimueh of the legends and the Nimueh in Merlin," -Um, I don't mean to be rude to whomever wrote this article, but that's not strictly true...

In many legends, Nimueh (also known as Nimue or Nymue) is a high priestess, sometimes only being ONE of the ladies of the lake, and not ALWAYS the one who gives Arthur/Merlin a sword. She is the one who provides the sword in the Roger Green version, and in several others, including Howard Pyle's.

But it's not always her.

Merlin's verison is not entirely different from the legends. Yes, at the end of series 1, Merlin kills her, instead of her killing him, but there are many, many stories about her poisoning Merlin (which happened on the show) and of her scrying and casting spells, as she does on the show.

Sometimes she also traps Merlin in an oak tree, but in other stories it's another lady of the lake or even Morgana.