However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.

You're going to be in a world of trouble when your family finds out.

That's right, declared Browning's companion. I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. Yes, mine's ale.

But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized.