Legend is distinguished from the genre of chronicle by the fact that legends apply structures that reveal a moral definition to events, providing meaning that lifts them above the repetitions and constraints of average human lives and giving them a universality that makes them worth repeating through many generations.

Legend has it that " Ki-ka-ma-sung ," meaning " boiling water ," referring to a footrace held each fall by local Native Americans, who had to run to the river and back before the pot boiled.

Legend has it that the name was the result of a spectator exclaiming " Oh how she scoons ", scoon being similar to scon, a Scots word meaning to skip along the surface of the water.

Legend has it that Saint Patrick's was the origin of the expression " chancing your arm " ( meaning to take a risk ), when Gerald Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, cut a hole in a door there, still to be seen, and thrust his arm through it, in an effort to call a truce in the Butler – FitzGerald dispute with another Earl, James of Ormond, in 1492.

Legend has it that it was taken from the Arabic letter "" ( ǧīm, ), which is the first letter in the Arabic word "" ( jadhir, meaning " root "; ).

Legend has it that Christopher Columbus originally named the port " Puerto Bello ", meaning " Beautiful Port ", in 1502.

A third meaning for the word Papanui comes from a Māori Legend and refers to a large funeral pyre.

Legend says that the name " Richvale " ( meaning " fertile valley ") was coined by con men to sell worthless plots of land to wheat farmers from Nebraska and Kansas.

:" Legend tells, that two Suns, two wholesome in change-rule UR and SUN, alike to the hourglass which turned upside down ever gives one of these the victory / The meaning of the divine errant wandering way / dross star in fire's sphere became in fire-tongue revealed to the Earth-I-course of the race of Paradise / godwilling leaders lead to the weal through their care in universal course, what is visible and soon hidden, whence they led the imagination of mankind / polar in change-play, from UR to SUN in sacrificial service of waxing and waning, in holy fire Santur is ambiguously spent in sparks, but turns victorious to blessing "

Legend says there used to be sheepcotes or solidly built folds and that these cotes gave the name to the hills: " Cottes-wealds ," in Anglo-Saxon, meaning exposed, windswept hills ( wealds or wolds ) dotted with Cotes.

The cycle ends with a depiction of the Annunciation, not strictly part of the Legend of the True Cross but probably included by Piero for its universal meaning.

The first author to adapt " egregore " in a modern language seems to be the French poet Victor Hugo, in La Légende des Siècles (" The Legend of the Ages "), First Series, 1859, where he uses the word " égrégore " first as an adjective, then as a noun, while leaving the meaning obscure.

Legend has it, that the inhabitants found an " odiong " ( local term for " arrow ") struck to a tree ; thus, the place was called Inodiongan, meaning " struck by an arrow ", which later metamorphosed to Odiongan.

" Through The Eyes Of The Legend ", was held in his country of his birth, Pizzoferrato, Abruzzi, Italy.

The song " Through the Fire and Flames " is one of their most famous songs and is featured on the games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Brutal Legend and as downloadable content for the Rock Band franchise.

Legend has it that Dr Patrick Delany, the chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, upon hearing her sing " He was despised ", proclaimed " Woman, for this be all thy sins forgiven thee!

Legend has it that Tamerlane sent for Hafiz regarding this verse and asked angrily: " Are you he who was so bold as to offer my two great cities Samarkand and Bukhara for the mole on thy mistress's cheek?

Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the Robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain.

Legend has it that when the Peruvian government decided to colonise the area ( in order to prevent the Colombian government from claiming it first ), they found a cross inscribed with the words " San Antonio ", naming the new town after this cross.

Legend has it that a priest sprinkled holy water around the city's cathedral and that the fire would not cross the line.

Legend states that a red cloth with the white cross simply fell from the sky in the middle of the 13-century Battle of Valdemar, after which the Danes were victorious.

Later in the 6th century, the Bishop Saint Gregory of Tours wrote his Chronicles about the Merovingian rulers, were appeared a Legend of the King Clovis I who prayed to Christ in one of his campaigns so he could find a place to cross the river Vienne.

Legend has it that the monastery was erected on the burial spot of Adam's head — though two other locations in Jerusalem also claim this honor — from which grew the tree that gave its wood to the cross on which Christ was crucified.

Legend has it that after fighting through the invaders and being wounded in the arm by a knife, Ermac, finding that their boats had been washed away in the storm, attempted to cross the river.

On December 3, 1684, his wife and several tribal members affixed their waxed fingertip marks to a deed that conveyed the " Compound's Lake " to a group of white settlers, including John Norton, who had migrated to central Connecticut from Massachusetts, for pennies on the dollar and miscellaneous trinkets, including a large copper tea kettle. Legend has it that Chief Compound drowned while trying to cross the lake in a large copper tea kettle.

Legend has it that St. Patrick struck the shield of Conall, son of King Niall of the Nine Hostages, with his crosier, called Bachall Isa ( the staff of Jesus ) inscribing thereon a sign of the cross and told him the same, and baptized him.

Legend has that Philip IV of Spain | the king himself painted the cross over the 1656 picture.

Legend says there was a Kingdom of Sobrarbe, where a cross appeared upon a tree.

Legend has it that the Devil wanted the soul of the first living thing to cross the bridge, so an enterprising local sent a dog over to cheat him.

The original Legend of Zelda was the first console game with a save function that enabled players to stop playing and then resume later.

A story from Nevers, which is reproduced in the Golden Legend, states that one night Charlemagne dreamed he was about to be killed by a wild boar during a hunt, but was saved by the appearance of a child, who had promised to save the emperor if he would give him clothes to cover his nakedness.

The rewritable aspect of the disks also opened up new possibilities ; games such as The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Kid Icarus were released to the FDS with a save feature.

The Adventure of Link is a direct sequel to the original The Legend of Zelda, again involving the protagonist, Link, on a quest to save Princess Zelda, who has fallen under a sleeping spell.

Many mechanical and chassis parts for the Sterling 825 / 827 are still readily available as it was largely identical to the much more popular Acura Legend in these areas, save for engine cooling and braking systems.

The town was destroyed again on 8 May 1902, when the volcano Mount Pelée erupted, killing over 30, 000 people, the entire population of the town as well as people from neighboring villages who had taken refuge in the supposedly safe city, save two people – a prisoner by the name of Louis-Auguste Cyparis ( also known by various other names ), who later toured the world with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, and Léon Compère-Léandre, a man who lived at the edge of the city .. Legend ( erroneously ) has it that the town's doom was forecast by loud groaning noises from within the volcano, but the mayor of the town had it blocked off to prevent people from leaving during an election.

Legend states that, on hearing this, one of his feistier daughters rallied her forces to save him, but even if this is so her efforts proved unsuccessful.

Legend says that Dharmapada laid down his life to save his community.

* In the 2002 video game Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, Allan appears briefly to disguise himself as Prince John's man Guillame de Longchamps to deliver the ransom to save King Richard.

In the 1986 fantasy film Legend, a young lad is aided in his quest to save a unicorn by a band of wood elves, most notably their leader, Honeythorn Gump.

Legend tells us that the long and arduous Trojan War, although nominally a Greek victory, brought anarchy, piracy, and ruin ; already before the Greek fleet set sail for Troy, the conflict had divided the gods as well, and this contributed to curses and acts of vengeance following many of the Greek heroes.

However, Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars and concluded that, " Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is another worthy entry in the recent renaissance of animation, and in the summer that has already given us Finding Nemo, it's a reminder that animation is the most liberating of movie genres, freed of gravity, plausibility, and even the matters of lighting and focus.

The Maragtas Legend tells us, that in the 12th century, ten ( 10 ) Bornean datus or chieftains left their homeland in the island of Borneo.

Legend tells us that two college students wanted to exhume his body for an autopsy.

Legend tells us that when the early settlers were clearing the forests, Cabezang Laureana ’ s workers found, hidden among the bushes, a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and on her lap the Niño Jesus.

" Legend says each of us faces our own personal mummudrai in the womb, shortly before birth-it is our first experience of the alien, the other, the different.

Legend tells us that the bridge was made entirely of wood.

Legend also tells us that the painting remained in and around Jerusalem until it was discovered by St. Helena in the fourth century.