[elvinyung]

I once read that King Arthur is one of the crowning (pun probably intended) counterexamples of "history is written by the victors": if the Anglo-Saxons really did write the history of the Sub-Roman Britain period, we would have heard more about the Völkerwanderung and less about Arthur and Badon. But maybe what you said is more correct, that history was adapted by the victors (who then became the losers).

[lkrubner]

There are times when the victors win by allowing the losers to write 90% of the story. Thus, the Catholic saints. Many of the saints were previously pagan gods, and the Catholic Church decided that, rather than fight about it, it was easiest to just accept the old gods as saints, which made victory much easier.

http://biblelight.net/verita.htm

http://www.articleseen.com/Article_pagan-gods-and-goddesses-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_saints_and...