CHAPTER IX.

Summing up of the elements of the older portion of the

cycle--Parallelism with Celtic tradition--The Christian

element in the cycle: the two forms of the Early History;

Brons form older--Brons and Bran--The Bran conversion

legend--The Joseph conversion legend, Joseph in apocryphal

literature, the Evangelium Nicodemi--The Bran legend the

starting point of the Christian transformation of the

legend--Substitution of Joseph for Bran--Objection to this

hypothesis--Hypothetical sketch of the growth of the legend page 215

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