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The God Arthur and the Hero Arthur--Sevenfold Evidence to show Arthur as an Incarnate Fairy King--Lancelot the…

Date of account: Published 1911
Source: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Reference: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries · selected passage 5
Rights: public_domain
Language: English with translated testimony
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The God Arthur and the Hero Arthur--Sevenfold Evidence to show Arthur as an Incarnate Fairy King--Lancelot the Foster-son of a Fairy Woman--Galahad, the Offspring of Lancelot and the Fairy Woman Elayne--Arthur as a Fairy King in _Kulhwch and Olwen_--Gwynn ab Nudd--Arthur like Dagda, and like Osiris--Brythonic Fairy Romances: their Evolution and Antiquity--Arthur in Nennius, Geoffrey, Wace, and in Layamon--Cambrensis' Otherworld Tale--Norman-French writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--_Romans d'Aventure_ and _Romans Bretons_--Origins of the 'Matter of Britain'-- Fairy Romance Episodes in Welsh Literature--Brythonic Origins.

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