CHAPTER V

BRYTHONIC DIVINITIES AND THE BRYTHONIC FAIRY-FAITH 308-31

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.