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