[discostu]

Of course that means he didn’t really write them. Kind of like how the Grimm brothers didn’t really write those fairy tales, they just put existing tales to paper. It’s a quite entertaining academic debate, he might or might not have existed and if he did exist he might or might not have actually created those stories.

[moose07]

I've never noticed a difference in the writing style through the works ,so all i can think is that he was a historian of some repute , in order to have access to all of this information, and a clever editor and story teller in his own right.
This would give him the ability to seamlessly compile all of the collected works of others into one.
“A collection of popular campfire stories for the education of children and the enrichment of our culture.”
Do i believe he existed as one man.....yes. But we shall probably never know for sure, unless a first edition is someday found. :)