段三：紅龍翻生、白船沉沒與諾曼諸王

梅林的預言

呢段預言講紅龍受難後翻生、白龍復起，以及「黃銅王子」「神聖之王」「日耳曼之蟲」等角色，夾雜宗教變革、戰爭與災難。多段內容被後世比附為英格蘭歷史上的真實事件。以下為公有領域英譯（Sebastian Evans 1904 譯）原文節錄。

原文（公有領域英譯）

When these things befall, then shall the Red one grieve, yet when he hath undergone his travail shall he wax strong. Then shall the calamity of the White be hastened and that which is builded in his little gardens shall be overthrown. Seven sceptre-bearers shall be slain, and one thereof shall be canonised a saint. Children shall perish in the wombs of their mothers, and dread shall be the torments of men that thereby may they that were born in the land be restored unto their own. He that shall do these things shall clothe him in the brazen man, and throughout many ages shall keep guard over the gates of London sitting upon a brazen horse. Thereafter shall the Red Dragon turn him back into his own ways, and labour to wreak is wrath upon himself. Wherefore the vengeance of the Thunderer shall overtake him, for that every field shall fail the tiller of the soil. Death shall snatch away the people and all nations shall be made void. The remnant that are left shall forsake their native soil and sow seed in plantations of foreign lands. The Blessed King shall fit forth a navy and shall be reckoned twelfth in the court amongst the saints. A grievous desolation of the land shall there be, and the threshing-floors of harvests shall return unto the forests fruitful in mast and acorn. Then again shall the White Dragon arise and invite hither the daughter of Germany. Again shall our little gardens be filled of foreign seed, the Red one shall pine away at the furthest end of the pool. Thereafter shall the German Worm be crowned and the Brazen Prince be buried. A term hath been assigned unto him that he shall not be able to overpass. A hundred and fifty years shall he remain in disquiet and subjection, but three hundred shall he be seated therein.'

白話解說

呢段講咩？ 紅龍（不列顛人）受完苦之後會變強，白龍（撒克遜人）嘅災難會到。跟住出現好多角色同災難：七個持權杖者被殺（其中一個封聖）、孕婦腹中嘅孩子死去、「黃銅人」騎黃銅馬長年守住倫敦城門、「神聖之王」會派出艦隊並被列入聖人之列，之後白龍又復起、引入「日耳曼的女兒」（暗指新的日耳曼／撒克遜移民）。

「白船號」係點解？ 學者最常將呢段同 1120 年「白船號沉沒」一事聯繫。史實：英王亨利一世之子威廉·艾德林（William Adelin）喺英倫海峽因「白船號」觸礁而溺斃，導致王位繼承危機。傑佛瑞寫書時呢件事已經發生，故呢類「預言」實屬事後取材，呼應導讀講嘅「事後之明」。

「黃銅人／黃銅馬」係咩？ 呢個意象學者多解作某位國王或統治者嘅象徵——「銅」喺預言中往往代表長久、堅固嘅統治。亦有解作倫敦某座銅像或紀念物。因原文含糊，各方詮釋各執一詞，但都唔離「一位長期統治嘅君王」呢個意思。

「一百五十年……三百年」係咩？ 原文講某位統治者「要喺動盪同臣服中過一百五十年，之後坐穩三百年」。呢類數字喺中世紀預言好常見，象徵某個王朝或民族嘅長短興衰，屬文學誇飾，唔係實數。

客觀睇： 成段將紅龍（不列顛／威爾士）同白龍（撒克遜／日耳曼）反覆相爭寫成一個循環，背後係英格蘭歷史上盎格魯—撒克遜人同諾曼人相繼入主嘅縮影。學者普遍視之為傑佛瑞用預言形式重寫已知歷史，而非真實預測。