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A legend recorded in the 12th century De Inventione Sanctœ Crucis Nostrœ (" The Discovery of our Holy Cross ") or " Waltham Chronicle " tells how in about 1016, at another estate of Tovi's at Montacute near Glastonbury, his blacksmith found a large black flint ( or marble ) crucifix buried at the top of a hill, after a dream.
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Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.
A recorded legend from Trøndelag tells how a corpse lying on a beach became the object of a quarrel between the two types of draugr.
His time in America cemented Thomas ' legend, where he recorded to vinyl works such as A Child's Christmas in Wales.
His legend was recorded in Kojiki and Nihonshoki, but the accounts of him are different in these two sources.
The second is the Roman legend of Brutus, recorded in two separate Latin works.
A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.
Among the Nevisians recorded were chantey-singing fishermen in a session organised in a rum shop in Newcastle ; Santoy, the Calypsonian, performing calypsos by Nevisian ballader and local legend Charles Walters to guitar and cuatro ; and string bands, fife players and drummers from Gingerland, performing quadrilles.
The origins of the Olympics and Marathon running are shrouded by myth and legend, though the first recorded game took place in 776 BCE.
According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,
In collaboration with Nora Guthrie, the Smithsonian exhibition draws from rarely seen objects, illustrations, film footage, and recorded performances to reveal a complex man who was at once poet, musician, protester, idealist, itinerant hobo, and folk legend.
It is unclear whether the legend was authentically Prussian ( i. e. recorded from Prussian mythology ) or was created by Grunau ( possibly inspired by Biblical Moses and Aaron ), though Lithuanian researchers tend to support in its authenticity.
Another legend, as recorded in Flores Historiarum is that Joseph is in fact the Wandering Jew, a man cursed by Jesus to walk the Earth until the Second Coming.
The founding legend of Gojoseon, which is recorded in the Samguk Yusa ( 1281 ) and other medieval Korean books, states that the country was established in 2333 BC by Dangun, said to be descended from heaven.
According to a legend recorded by Snorri Sturluson, in the Heimskringla, the late 9th-century Värmlandish chieftain Áki invited both the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair and the Swedish king Eric Eymundsson, but had the Norwegian king stay in the newly constructed and sumptuous one, because he was the youngest one of the kings and the one who had the greatest prospects.
Births are also recorded in such shrines, and the Greek legend of conception and birth in the tomb – as in the story of Danae-is based on the ancient belief that the dead know the future.
It is recorded in Wild Wales by George Borrow, who notes it as a well known legend ; by Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which details versions of the same story from other cultures ; and by The Nuttall Encyclopaedia, under the Anglicised spellings " Gellert " and " Killhart ".
There are strong connections with the medieval Theophilus legend which was recorded in the 13th century.
A variant of the Wandering Jew legend is recorded in the Flores Historiarum by Roger of Wendover around the year 1228.
The legend of Huitzilopochtli is recorded in the Mexicayotl Chronicle.
The legend recorded by Manetho was that Menes, the first pharaoh to unite the Two Lands, established his capital on the banks of the Nile by diverting the river with dikes.
A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus ( fl.
In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the fish which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which eats one whale each day.
Another odd legend regarding this fish-eating bird of prey, derived from the writings of Albertus Magnus and recorded in Holinshed's Chronicles, was that it had one webbed foot and one taloned foot.
One legend recorded of Vortigern concerns his attempt to build a stronghold near Snowdon, called Dinas Emrys, only to have his building materials disappear each time he tries.
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A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.
The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.
This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.
According to ancient historians, who perhaps wanted to link Venetic origins to legend of Roman origins in Troy, the Veneti ( often called the Paleoveneti ) came from Paphlagonia in Anatolia at the time of the Fall of Troy ( 12th century BC ), led by prince Antenor, a comrade of Aeneas.
* Bishop Eustorgius I brings relics of the Three Magi from Constantinople to Milan, according to a 12th century legend.
This fanciful legend is intimately tied to Robert de Boron's version of the Holy Grail story and to Glastonbury's connection to King Arthur, which dates at least to the early 12th century.
By the 12th century, the Kerait rulers were still following a custom of bearing Christian names, which may have fueled the legend.
Whatever its influences, the legend began in earnest in the early 12th century with two reports of visits of an Archbishop of India to Constantinople and of a Patriarch of India to Rome at the time of Pope Callixtus II ( 1119 – 1124 ).
William of Malmesbury recorded that the bishop left instructions that his body should be buried outside the church, ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis ex alto rorantibus esset obnoxius it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high, which has been taken as indicating that the legend was already well known in the 12th century.
By William of Tyre's time later in the 12th century, Godfrey was already a legend among the descendants of the original crusaders.
This legend first appears in the Historia Britonum, a 9th-century historical compilation attributed to Nennius, but is best known from the account given by the 12th century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae.
Saint George was adopted as the patron saint of England in the 13th century, and the legend of Saint George slaying a dragon dates from the 12th century.
Óengus's connection to the Saltire, set out at length by later chroniclers such as John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun, comes from an earlier source, the older St Andrews foundation legend, which appears to date from the 12th century or before.
This legend was widely prevalent throughout the 12th – 16th centuries.
In Dublin, there is a local legend that suggests that Little John visited the city in the 12th century and perhaps was even hanged there.
The 12th century Jersey poet Wace is considered the founder of Jersey literature and contributed to the development of the Arthurian legend in British literature.
From at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area was frequently associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon.
This fanciful legend is intimately tied to Robert de Boron's version of the Holy Grail story and to Glastonbury's connection to King Arthur, which dates at least to the early 12th century.
This legend first appeared in the 12th century and was not clearly stated until late 15th century in Bencao Gangmu, where the development of tofu was attributed to Liu with no mention of soy milk.
According to legend, the island was founded by Trojan hero Antenor in the 12th century BC who is also famed as the founder of the city of Padua.
This legend can be traced back to have originated from the 12th century, when in context of Renovatio Romae and Church Reform, the monastery of San Saba was meant to be provided with a long and local tradition.
According to a legend the famous 12th century Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli studied there.
The name has long been popular in Poland where the legend of Princess Wanda has been circulating since at least the 12th century ; in 1947 Wanda was cited as the second most popular name from Polish secular history given to Polish girls.
He is apparently mentioned in 12th century Norman documents, but much of his story appears to be based on local legend and archaeology, later enhanced by Nicholas Size's popular dramatized history ( see below ).
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