As such the traditions surrounding Breage appear to be later legend attached to a figure whose true history had been lost.

The tradition that the battle actually took place at Dunsinane has its origins in later medieval legend.

The sorcerer and the historical bishop were likely confounded in later legend.

This, however, is most likely a later legend based on the following raw materials:

Quetzacoátl, according to a later legend, set an enormous and indestructible cross, which has never been found.

Again, very good to a later legend.

But the earlier and the later legends differ considerably in the description and the details of this event.

A later legend recounts a crusade dated around 1054, but no contemporary or archaeological evidence backs the story.

No hint is given of the means by which they rose and were propelled; and the passage did not survive into the later legend.

Belle always harbored a strong sense of style, which would feed into her later legend.