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  2. Template:Periodic table legend/doc - Wikipedia

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    This template is a wrapper for a number of legends, each called a theme, used in periodic tables. Examples of themes are: block, state of matter. Examples of themes are: block, state of matter. Each theme can have individual settings for that theme, for example to show "unknown".

  3. Legendary (hagiography) - Wikipedia

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    Examples are in the Hellados periegesis of Pausanias, or the codices collected by Photius in his "Bibliotheca". Great importance was attached to the reports of miracles in antiquity. The legend makes its appearance wherever people endeavoured to form theological concepts, and in its main features it is everywhere the same.

  4. Walam Olum - Wikipedia

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    The most egregious example is the Lenni Lenape migration saga, 'Walam Olum', which has perplexed scholars for one and a half centuries. Rafinesque wrote the 'Walam Olum' believing it to be authentic because it accorded with his own belief—he was merely recording and giving substance to what must be true.

  5. Loathly lady - Wikipedia

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    Gawain and the loathly lady in W. H. Margetson's illustration for Maud Isabel Ebbutt's Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race (1910) The loathly lady (Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. [1]

  6. Ayina-i Iskandari (Amir Khusrau) - Wikipedia

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    The Ayina-i IskandarÄ« (Alexandrine Mirror) is a Persian legend of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great composed by the poet Amir Khusrau (d. 1325), completed in 1299/1300 during the reign of Muhammad II of Khwarazm. It is presented in the form of 35 discourses, running at 4,416 verses in the 1977 edition of the text produced by Jamâl ...

  7. Alexander the Great in the Shahnameh - Wikipedia

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    The Romance genre functioned to preserve and describe the legends and exploits of Alexander the Great. Although the Shahnameh is a much larger text and contains legends of many other rulers of Greater Iran , three consecutive sections of it cover Alexander (who the text refers to as "Sekandar"), amounting to ~2,500 verses.

  8. Matter of England - Wikipedia

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    Matter of England, romances of English heroes and romances derived from English legend are terms that 20th century scholars have given to a loose corpus of Medieval literature [1] [2] that in general deals with the locations, characters and themes concerning England, English history, or English cultural mores.

  9. Werewolf fiction - Wikipedia

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    A classic cinematic example of the theme is The Wolf Man (1941) which in later films joins with the Frankenstein Monster and Count Dracula as one of the three famous icons of modern day horror. However, werewolf fiction is an exceptionally diverse genre, with ancient folkloric roots and manifold modern re-interpretations.