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* According to some religious studies texts, this has also gone on in many, ''many'' other myths: the most notable involve various saints meeting each other. This goes on even today.
* [[King Arthur|Arthurian Myth]] formed this way, starting with stories about a Celtic chieftain and slowly incorporating other works into itself, including ''[[Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight]]'' and an entire cycle of French poetry that introduced Lancelot.
** Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Vita Merlini (The life of Merlin), combined the legends of the poets/wizards Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin), and Taliesin into the Arthurian legend.
** Wolfram von Eschenbach likewise connected the Arthurian legend to the otherwise unrelated legends of Prester John (a mythical Indian/African king), and Lohengrin, the Knight of the Swan, in his epic poem ''Parzival'' by stating that Feirefiz (Parzival's African half-brother) was Prester John's father, and that Parzival was Lohengrin's father.
** [[Robin Hood]] and Maid Marian likewise appear in T.H. White's [[The Once and Future King]] quartet.
** [[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen]] Adds in [[Norse Mythology]] to the mix.
* Similarly, the [[Robin Hood]] stories started with a poem about a outlaw (sort of a medieval version of "The Ballad of Jesse James"), and turned into a collection of stories which kept getting characters from other contexts added to it—like Maid Marian, who originally appeared in generic May Day songs.
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