And when he retold the legend of Gregorius he interpolated a modern version in which the medieval players speak contemporary thoughts in archaic language ; ;

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

Manduessedum ( Mancetter ), near the modern town of Atherstone in Warwickshire, has also been suggested, as has ' The Rampart ' near Messing in Essex, according to legend.

The rumours about prosecution of sighthounds in post-revolutionary Russia is a legend of modern time, possibly based on similar incidents in Maoist China.

Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.

Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

The legend then states that Chūai died soon after and his widow, Jingū, conquered the promised land, which is conjectured to be part of modern day Korea.

Massalia ( modern Marseille ) silver coin with Greek legend, a testimony to Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, 5th – 1st century BCE.

Re-tellings and re-imaginings of the romance tradition are not the only important aspect of the modern legend of King Arthur.

According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.

Further, modern mythopoeia such as fantasy novels, manga, and urban legend, with many competing artificial mythoi acknowledged as fiction, supports the idea of myth as ongoing social practice.

Most modern scholars dismiss Pope Joan as a Medieval legend.

As well as ballads, the legend was also transmitted by " Robin Hood games " or plays that were an important part of the late medieval and early modern May Day festivities.

In modern versions of the legend, Robin Hood is said to have taken up residence in the verdant Sherwood Forest in the county of Nottinghamshire.

There is something of a modern movement amongst Yorkshire residents to attempt to claim the legend of Robin Hood, to the extent that South Yorkshire's new airport, on the site of the redeveloped RAF Finningley airbase near Doncaster, although ironically in the historic county of Nottinghamshire, has been given the name Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield.

As for Compostela, it comes, according to legend, from the Latin Campus Stellae ( i. e. " Field of the Star "); it seems unlikely however that this could yield the modern Compostela under normal evolution from Latin to Galician-Portuguese.

The modern legend that follows below is synthesised from early and late hagiographical sources, omitting the more fantastical episodes, to narrate a purely human military career in closer harmony with modern expectations of reality.

Around 700 AD, Tai people who did not come under Chinese influence settled in what is now Dien Bien Phu in modern Vietnam according to the Khun Borom legend.

Many modern takes on the Arthurian legend have their roots in Malory, including John Boorman's 1981 movie Excalibur, which includes selected elements of the book.

Despite this, the identification of the tarot cards with the Egyptian Book of Thoth was already firmly established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

Rather, the term is used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in pre-industrial times.

Some scholars prefer the term contemporary legend to highlight those tales with relatively recent or modern origins.

Enfide, which the tradition of Subiaco identifies with the modern Affile, is in the Simbruini mountains, about forty miles from Rome and two from Subiaco.

Donna Kooler identifies a possible problem with the tambour hypothesis: period tambour hooks that survive in modern collections cannot produce crochet because the integral wing nut necessary for tambour work interferes with attempts at crochet.

Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.

Academic Laurie Osborne identifies the direct influence of Hamlet in numerous modern narratives, and divides them into four main categories: fictional accounts of the play's composition, simplifications of the story for young readers, stories expanding the role of one or more characters, and narratives featuring performances of the play.

Erich Fromm identifies Marx, together with Freud and Albert Einstein, as the " architects of the modern age ", but rejects the idea that Marx and Freud were equally significant, emphasizing that he sees Marx as both far more historically important than Freud and a finer thinker.

Polanyi identifies it as a pathology of the modern mind, and traces its origins to a false conception of knowledge ; which although relatively harmless in the formal sciences, generates nihilism in the humanities.

There are two principal approaches to QoS in modern packet-switched IP networks, a parameterized system based on an exchange of application requirements with the network, and a prioritized system where each packet identifies a desired service level to the network.

The rationality of the Edmund party is one with which a modern audience more readily identifies.

* In H. G. Wells ' The Sleeper Awakes, the Sleeper identifies a cylinder (" a modern substitute for books ") with " The Man Who Would Be King " written on the side in mutilated English as " oi Man huwdbi Kin ".

The modern theory of constituent order (" word order "), usually attributed to Joseph Greenberg, identifies several kinds of phrase.

Resonances in the recording horns and associated components resulted in a characteristic " horn sound " that immediately identifies an " acoustical " recording to an experienced modern listener and seemed inseparable from " phonograph music " to contemporary listeners.

George Walden, in the essay Who's a Dandy ?, identifies Noël Coward, Andy Warhol, and Quentin Crisp as modern dandies.

He identifies culture in the modern age as having had a property of " semi-autonomy ", with an " existence … above the practical world of the existent " but, in the postmodern age, culture has been deprived of this autonomy, the cultural has expanded to consume the entire social realm so that all becomes " cultural ".

He also identifies liberty with republican regimes ; whether he would include so-called " crowned republics " ( such as modern constitutional monarchies ) is somewhat unclear from the text.

Burchardt ( 2007 ) evaluates the state of modern English rural history and identifies an " orthodox " school, focused on the economic history of agriculture.

In modern scholarship on the subject, a Roman numeral identifies an artist in the sequence of artists using a gō.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, a tradition dating back to the 8th century identifies Cana with the modern Arab town of Kafr Kanna, about 7 km northeast of Nazareth, Israel.

A long-standing tradition begun by Euhemerus in the late 4th century BC and supported by Callimachus, endorsed by modern Maltese tradition, identifies Ogygia with the island of Gozo, the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago.

( Lovecraft identifies these people with the modern day Inuit, whom he calls " squat, yellow creatures ".

The audit process itself should be a continuing action, and modern SAM software identifies what is installed, where it is installed, its usage, and provides a reconciliation of this discovery against usage.

This weakness that Strauss identifies is considered a strength of the ESV and other literal translations by proponents of that methodology, emphasizing that it reminds readers of the Bible's strangeness, coming from a world thousands of years gone, by not fitting it to grade-school English — when the texts themselves are not always grammatical — and modern Western sociocultural sensibilities, such as feminism and the pursuant gender-neutral debate ; and that it also allows for more transparency to the source texts, requiring less interpretation on the part of translators, with the goal of leaving as much semantic vagueness as the original texts possess visible to the reader in translation, not arbitrarily closing off exegetical choices to the reader at the level of translation.

He created the Robert Morris Observatory in the Netherlands, a " modern Stonehenge ", which identifies the solstices and the equinoxes.

In positing a continuity between Islamic terrorism's medieval and modern manifestations, Burgess identifies both a common underlying motive, namely loyalty to a divine imperative, and similar tactics, such as actively seeking out martyrdom.

Biblical scholarship identifies two different traditions in the Hebrew Bible concerning the site of Rachel's burial, respectively a northern version, locating it north of Jerusalem near Ramah, modern Al-Ram, and a southern narrative locating it close to Bethlehem.

His research and publications identifies him as a modern lexicographer with the introduction of lexicographic concepts such as lexicographic information costs ( Nielsen 2008 ), the distinction between a maximizing dictionary and a minimizing dictionary, the typology of multi-field, single-field and sub-field dictionaries, and the concept of function-related cross-references.