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Legend is a loanword from Old French that entered English usage c. 1340. The Old French noun legende derives from the Medieval Latin legenda. [7] In its early English-language usage, the word indicated a narrative of an event. The word legendary was originally a noun (introduced in the 1510s) meaning a collection or corpus of legends.
The Faust of early books – as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them – is irrevocably damned because he prefers human knowledge over divine knowledge: "He laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of medicine ...
Historical figure is a person who lived in the past and whose deeds exerted a significant impact on other people’s lives and consciousness. These figures are attributed with certain features that are a compilation of the actual values they proclaimed and the manner they were perceived by others.
Zorro and The Dragon Riders by David Bergantino March 1999 Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Books ISBN 978-0-8125-6768-7; Skull and Crossbones by Frank Lauria 1999 Minstrel Books ISBN 978-0-671-51970-4, based on the film The Mask of Zorro; The Secret Swordsman by William McCay 1999 Minstrel Books ISBN 978-0-671-51969-8, based on the film The Mask ...
Of Arthour and of Merlin Archived 2021-11-06 at the Wayback Machine translated and retold in modern English prose, the story from Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Advocates 19.2.1 (the Auchinleck MS) (from the Middle English of the Early English Text Society edition: O D McCrae-Gibson, 1973, Of Arthour and of Merlin, 2 vols, EETS and ...
A legendary (Latin: legendarius) is a collection of saints' lives. [1] The word derives from the Latin word legenda, meaning 'things to be read'.The first legendaries were manuscripts written in the Middle Ages, including collections such as the South English legendaries or the Golden Legend.
Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. [1]
The Sigurd legend is the basis of Siegfried and contributes to the stories of Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung. [ citation needed ] William Morris 's epic poem Sigurd the Volsung (1876) is a major retelling of the story in English verse.