Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26210095-20160404001701/@comment-26347028-20160404195221

Patrick.vtap wrote: What do you mean "embellished in time"? A tale becomes more fantastical, given time. Seeing how it was all written down in a book after the event, it all seems to have a large element of that - even though the account is a primary source; it was written a while after the events.