Talk:Paul Bunyan/@comment-180.254.110.105-20170803130036/@comment-13580627-20170808124248

well, there was a roman soldier (field commander or some comparable rank) whose name was Artorias, who went over to britain to subjugate stuff. Maybe that's where the original tales come from. Those tales then became massively glorified, first through oral tradition, then through the writing of the novels (i think they where written by a 14th century frenchman) and that's how we end up at stories about a twat who orders a night to wager his life to bring him a fucking chessboard