Today's Fast Factoid - For now here's something I learned on another forum, I wasn't clever enough to figure this out myself. If you already know it, well and good. If not you'll be amazed. Keiichi's short hand version of his name, K-1, comes from combining the English letter "K" with the Japanese for the number one "ichi". Thus "K"-"ichi", get it? Pretty clever that Keiichi

In the scene in the movie where Belldandy and Celestine watch Morgan and her friend go through the Judgement Gate, we never learn who the friend was. He was possibly early European, possibly Celtic, and had a harp or lute on his back which might make him a bard. Well someone with more time on their hands than me did some research and came up with a name, Myyridin. That's an early Celtic name for a mythological figure who later became Merlin, who was supposed to have taught Morgan Le Fay her magic.

Myyridin (or Myrddin) started as a celtic bard who went mad when he lost all his loved ones in a battle. He ran off to live in the wilderness, could talk to animals, and gained the gift of prophesy. That he could be the guy with Morgan is possible. He does kinda fit the profile. (This was found on the Mad Board Forum. My guess would be the author found it on a new age/pagan site as those are the sort of places that would connect Merlin (Myrridin) as a former lover of Morgan. The Arthorian sites wouldn't make a romantic connection between the two. That could also be where the movie people got their idea for the character.)