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A legendary account, placing the Báthorys ' origin in the year 900 ( preceding the advent of the Gutkeled clan ), related how a god-fearing warrior called Vitus ( a namesake of a member of the first generation of the Gutkeled clan ) set out to fight a dragon, which loomed in the swamps next to the castle of Ecsed ( actually built only in the 14th century ) and harassed the countryside.
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This account now is thought by some historians to be mostly legendary, although essentially the underlying story of a rebelling mercenary force may be accurate, and the date for the founding of the kingdom of Kent is thought to be approximately the middle of the fifth-century, in agreement with the legend.
According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).
The Dorians followed the custom of other Greek tribes in claiming as ancestor for their ruling families one of the legendary heroes, but the traditions must not on that account be regarded as entirely mythical.
A less obviously legendary account of Arthur appears in the Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, which is often claimed to date from the early 11th century although the earliest manuscript of this text dates from the 15th century.
This work, completed c. 1138, is an imaginative and fanciful account of British kings from the legendary Trojan exile Brutus to the 7th-century Welsh king Cadwallader.
Lagari Hasan Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator who, according to an account written by Evliya Çelebi, made a successful manned rocket flight.
A 5th-century " Passio Marcelli ", which is included in the legendary account of the martyrdom of St. Cyriacus ( cf.
Although Pius V is often credited with the origin of the Pope's white garments — supposedly because after his election Pius continued to wear his white Dominican habit — this claim must be regarded as legendary on account of the great number of contemporary portraits of earlier popes wearing the same white cassock he supposedly inaugurated.
The legendary account makes Tannhäuser a knight and poet who found the Venusberg, the subterranean home of Venus, and spent a year there worshipping the goddess.
In the earliest account, Ferdowsi romanticises an international match between Turanian force and the followers of Siyâvash, a legendary Iranian prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire ; the poet is eloquent in his praise of Siyâvash's skills on the polo field.
Lagari Hasan Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman aviator who, according to an account written by Evliya Çelebi, made a successful manned rocket flight.
An early account of Agnes ' death, stressing her steadfastness and virginity, but not the legendary features of the tradition, is given by Saint Ambrose.
Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.
* c. 2492 BC The Armenian patriarch Hayk defeats the Babylonian king Bel ( legendary account ).
The legendary account makes Tannhäuser a knight and poet who found the Venusberg, the subterranean home of Venus, and spent a year there worshipping the goddess.
Unfortunately, the veracity of this account has been clouded by later fictional publications depicting Saizō as one of the legendary Sanada Ten Braves.
The Night They Raided Minsky's ( 1968 ) gives a possibly legendary account of the birth of striptease at Minsky's Burlesque theatre in New York.
Little information on Caius is available except that given by the Liber Pontificalis, which relies on a legendary account of the martyrdom of St. Susanna for its information.
The Dorians followed the custom of other Greek tribes in claiming as ancestor for their ruling families one of the legendary heroes, but the traditions must not on that account be regarded as entirely mythical.
The Dorians followed the custom of other Greek tribes in claiming as ancestor for their ruling families one of the legendary heroes, but the traditions must not on that account be regarded as entirely mythical.
He was the father of Elffin ap Gwyddno, the foster-father of the famous Welsh poet, Taliesin, in the legendary account given in the late medieval Chwedl Taliesin ( Ystoria Taliesin / Hanes Taliesin ; " The Tale of Taliesin ").
In the mid 16th century, Elis Gruffydd recorded a legendary account of Taliesin which resembles the story of the boyhood of the Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhail and the salmon of wisdom in some respects.
Saint Quirinus of Rome was, according to a legendary account, the son of Philip the Arab.
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" Traffic " in the corridor can be quite heavy at times, and in fact one legendary " hack " ( practical joke ) in 1985 involved placing traffic signals, lane markings, and highway-like signs along its length.
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A euhemerist origin for Atlas was as a legendary Atlas, king of Mauretania, an expert astronomer.
" Other accounts cite their origin in Chicomostoc, " the place of the seven caves ," or at Tamoanchan ( the legendary origin of all civilizations ).
Mythological roots of the name date back to a legendary ancient king named ' Italus ', though a more likely origin may be from ancient Oscan VÍTELIÚ, meaning " land of young cattle ", as Italy was a rich agricultural country since ancient times.
Modern occultists suggest that some Hermetic texts may be of Pharaonic origin, and that the legendary " forty-two essential texts " that contain the core Hermetic religious beliefs and philosophy of life remain hidden in a secret library.
The Völsungasaga ( often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs ) is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan ( including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and destruction of the Burgundians ).
Other stories give him a legendary origin.
Oenomaus ' chariot race was one legendary origin of the Olympic Games ; one of its turning-posts was preserved, and round it grew an Elean legend of a burnt " house of Oenomaus ", reported by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE.
This is the origin of the legendary blues crossroads phrase " where the Southern cross the Dog ".
In another version, the Mexican media critic and theorist Carlos Monsiváis cites a legendary account of the origin of Cantinflas's characteristic speech:
Another common origin tale begins the cocktail ’ s history at the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas where, in 1948, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy ( Margaret ) Lee.
Koreans consider Mount Baekdu as the place of their ancestral origin and as a sacred mountain, one of the three “ spirited ” mountains ( Jirisan, Hallasan and Baekdusan ; " san " means a mountain in Korean ); the one contained in the legendary foundation of Korea.
In the Edo period, many artists, such as Toriyama Sekien, created yōkai inspired by folklore or their own ideas, and in the present, several yōkai created by them ( e. g. Kameosa and Amikiri, see below ) are wrongly considered as being of legendary origin.
Medieval restorers unfamiliar with the encaustic method found that the paints they applied to the damaged areas " simply sloughed off the image " according to the medieval chronicler Risinius, and their solution was to erase the original image and to repaint it on the original panel, which was believed to be holy because of its legendary origin as a table top from the home of the Holy Family.
* Nakatomi clan ( 中臣氏 )-descended from the kami Ame no Koyane no Mikoto ( legendary ), and his descendant Ame no Taneko no Mikoto companion in arms of Emperor Jimmu ; origin of Fujiwara clan.
He is remembered for his letter from Aristas in which is described in legendary form the origin of the Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint.
The Mamilii traced their nomen and origin to the mythical Mamilia, the daughter of Telegonus, who was regarded as the legendary founder of Tusculum and the son of Ulysses and the goddess Circe.
In 1387 AD, Hversu Noregr byggðist (' How Norway was inhabited ') is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages.
These events were worked into the Nibelungenlied, and form the origin of the legendary figure Volker von Alzey, the gleeman in the Nibelungenlied.
The apkallu in Sumerian mythology were seven legendary culture heros from before the Flood, of human descent, but possessing extraordinary wisdom from the gods, and one of the seven apkallu, Adapa, was therefore called " son of Ea ", despite his human origin.
The origin of the legendary figure is not fully known.
By one account, it was the legendary land of origin of the Turks.
The origin, equipment and training of this legendary special unit as well as its incorporation into the command structure of the " Wehrmacht " are until today only fragmentarily documented in scientific investigations.
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