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legend and Helena
There was a contemporary legend that she had visited Napoleon imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena, but that is probably untrue.
* Jan Willem Drijvers, " Helena Augusta ": the three legends that circulated about the finding of the Cross, the Helena legend, the Protonike legend and the Judas Kyriakos legend, with references to the contemporary sources
Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was the father of Saint Helena and the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.
Tradition and legend attribute the discovery of the True Cross to Saint Helena, mother of Constantine the Great who went to Palestine during the fourth century in search of relics.
When Helena, mother of Constantine the Great discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem, the legend was told by and repeated by Sozomen and Theodoret that the Holy Nails had been recovered too.
According to legend, Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, discovered the seamless robe in the Holy Land in the year 327 or 328 along with several other relics, including the True Cross.
According to tradition, the bonfire commemorates how Queen Helena, as legend has it, found with the smoke of a bonfire, where to search for the true cross in Jerusalem, or how, by a series of bonfires, she signalled to her son Constantine in Constantinople her success in finding it.
The legend of the foundation is recorded in these pictures, St. Helena in a brilliant red garment and the Finding of the True Cross in Jerusalem.
Jan Polack The recognition of the True Cross ( legend of St. Helena ), panel, 46. 5 × 101. 6 cm, 1486.

legend and daughter
His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.
Helle, the daughter of Athamas, was drowned here in the legend of the Golden Fleece.
The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.
In one version of the legend of St. Wojciech it is written that Mieszko I had his daughter married to a Pomeranian prince, who previously voluntarily was washed with the holy water of the baptism in Poland.
In the Lancelot-Grail and later accounts, Merlin's eventual downfall came from his lusting after a huntress named Niviane ( or Nymue, Nimue, Niniane, Nyneue, or Viviane in some versions of the legend ), who was the daughter of the king of Northumberland.
Another states that a 15th-century legend from Milan gives the invention to the nobleman falconer Ughetto Atellani, who loved Adalgisa, the daughter of a poor baker named Toni.
She symbolizes regrowth when she helps the starving stranger ( see also Roman Charity, works of art based on the legend of a daughter as wet nurse to her dying father ).
In the first legend, Trapani stemmed from the sickle which fell from the hands of the goddess Demeter while she was seeking for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades.
She was the daughter of Agenor, and on her disappearance from Earth the Phœnicians honoured her with a temple and told a sacred legend about her ; how that Zeus was enamoured of her for her beauty, and changing his form into that of a bull carried her off into Crete.
# Firstly ( 4. 7 ), the Scythians ' legend about themselves, which portrays the first Scythian king, Targitaus, as the child of the sky-god and of a daughter of the Dnieper.
George Coedès suggests the Cambodian myth is a basis for the legend of " Phra Daeng Nang Ai ", in which a woman who has lived many previous lives in the region is reincarnated as a daughter of Phraya Khom ( Thai for Cambodian ,) and causes the death of her companion in former lives who has been reincarnated as a prince of the Nagas.
In China, there is a legend that the discovery of the silkworm's silk was by an ancient empress Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor and the daughter of XiLing-Shi.
In this account, Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, Rhadamanthys ' brother ; another Ariadne was the daughter of Minos ' grandson and namesake, who features in the Theseus legend, and was rescued by Dionysus.
In the legend of Enki and Ninhursag, Ninhursag bore a daughter to Enki called Ninsar (" Lady Greenery ").
According to a legend within the Greek mythology, the island's original name was " Letois ," after the goddess Artemis, daughter of Leto.
According to the legend, she stayed with the Macedonian king for 13 days and nights in the hope that the great warrior would father a daughter by her.
Perhaps behind the legend lies the offering by a Scythian king of his daughter as a wife for Alexander, as the latter himself wrote in a letter to Antipater.
According to Livy's account of the legend she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa, and descended from Aeneas.
According to a miraculous legend ( miraculum ), a poor woman who was starving in prison was saved when her daughter gave her breast milk ( compare Roman Charity ).
Macha Mong Ruad (" red mane "), daughter of Áed Rúad, was, according to medieval legend and historical tradition, the only queen in the List of High Kings of Ireland.
In Welsh medieval legend, Ceridwen ( ), also spelled Cerridwen, was an enchantress, mother of Morfran and a beautiful daughter Creirwy.
In the legend of the Children of Lir, she was changed into a swan and cursed by her stepmother, Aoife, to wander the lakes and rivers of Ireland, with her brothers Fiachra, Conn and Aodh, for 900 years until saved by the marriage of Lairgren, son of Colman, son of Cobthach, and Deoch, daughter of Finghin, which union broke the curse.
Hildr is attested in the Prose Edda as Högni's daughter and Hedin's wife in the legend of Hedin and Högni.
According to legend, Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas saved John Smith from being executed by the Indians.

legend and Cole
Local legend places Colchester as the seat of King Cole ( or Coel ) of the rhyme Old King Cole, a legendary ancient king of Britain.
King Cole or Coel is the name of a figure, or multiple figures with similar names, prominent in British literature and legend since the Middle Ages.
Other guests included The Captain and Tennille ; Natalie Cole ; Connie Francis ; recording legend and decades-long Sedaka friend and former manager Don Kirshner ; and new Solitaire " owner " Clay Aiken, among many others.
Cole stated, " There is a legend of the Danish king, Christian X, who, during World War II, when Hitler insisted all Jews publicly wear a yellow Star of David, would wear the star himself, hence making it difficult to differentiate who was Jewish.
Other famous cover subjects are, Trey Songz, Brandy, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Amerie, Jennifer Lopez, Keyshia Cole, Janet Jackson, Lil Wayne, The Fugees, Eminem, T. I., R. Kelly, Michael Jackson ( whom Quincy Jones ' daughter Kidada had dressed in hip-hop clothing, reportedly for the first and only time in the entertainer's career ), Ciara, who also appeared on the cover numerous times and rap legend Tupac Shakur's famous cover story in which he reveals important details about his non-fatal 1994 NYC shooting ( two years before his death in Las Vegas, Nevada ).
Aged 38 he was inked by HBO and matched in high profile fights with cruiserweight champion Al Cole and the Cuban amateur legend Jorge Luis Gonzales, both of whom he defeated comprehensively.

legend and married
Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.
According to legend, he married Aslaug and became the son-in-law of Sigurd the Völsung.
They hypothesized that this " descended from a fish " legend was actually referring to the concept that the Merovingian line had married into the bloodline of Jesus Christ, since the symbol for early Christians had also been a fish.
Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl.
In the Wayang legend, Yamadipati married Dewi Mumpuni.
It included Argentina's Daniel Guerrero, Puerto Rican dancing legend Iris Chacón, a young Adamari López, Amneris Morales and Miguel Ángel Suárez and Ángela Meyer as a married couple who tried to make Guerrero and Chacon's lives impossible, particularly Meyer's character.
In this legend, a mysterious stranger kidnaps a married woman and takes her to his home.
According to legend, Belphegor was sent from Hell by Pluto to find out if there really was such a thing on earth as married happiness.
Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).
The legend came true for Smith's daughter, who married in the Chinese Room itself.
According to the Buyei legend, Pangu became an expert in rice farming after creating the world, and subsequently married the daughter of the Dragon King, and that was the beginning of the Buyei people.
According to legend, Numerius entered the gens when Quintus Fabius Vibulanus married a daughter of Numerius Octacilius Maleventanus, and bestowed his father-in-law's name on his son.
Isabella was married to Robert at the age of 18 and legend has it that they were much in love.
: A supremely strong and powerful celestial maiden or tennyo from the legend, who married the founder of the Mikage family, Mikagi Mikage.
England cricket legend Alastair Cook ( MBE ) got married here.
" According to legend, the moon's light was once reduced due to a curse by King Daksha, whose 27 daughters ( the 27 stars, according to Hindu astrology ) were married to the moon.
An urban legend maintains that Nabors married Rock Hudson in the 1970s.
Considered the national game of Ghana, oware is said to derive its name-which literally means " he / she marries "-from a legend in Twi, the language of the Asante people, about a man and a woman who played the game endlessly and so as to able to stay together and continue playing, they married.
The pair divorced in 1983, and she is currently married to boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard.
According to legend, Oldřich married a woman known as Božena, daughter of Křesina, after discarding his first wife on the grounds that they were childless.
The origin of this festival is a legend which dates back to the Majapahit kingdom, during the reign of King Brawijaya, in which the queen of the Kingdom gave birth to a daughter named Roro Anteng, who married Jaka Seger, a young man from the Brahmin caste.
Whilst perhaps not boasting the significant cultural contributions of neighbouring Burwood ( the suburb in which The Easybeats and AC / DC were formed and cricketing legend Don Bradman was married ), Strathfield has made a contribution to Australia's cultural landscape.
In the legend, when Rhacius, the Cretan settler of Caria, learned who they were, he let them settle in the country and married Manto himself.

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