when Merlyn materializes a sailor hat rather than his own wizard hat.the presence of the Encyclopedia Britannica in Merlyn's house, and.Merlyn invoking Hitler to counter Wart's romantic view of war,.Some examples of this type (which necessarily involve Merlyn in some way) are:
These anachronisms purposely happen in the context of the story, sometimes even being called out as such as you note. The straightforward one is that White's Merlyn is living through time backwards, and therefore has epistemic access to the narrative's future. There are three explanations for the plethora of anachronisms in The Once and Future King.
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