This aspect of the legend was immortalised by Goethe in his poem Der Erlkönig, later set to music by Schubert.

Though Wagner was working on his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he found himself intrigued by the legend of Tristan und Isolde.

Klos replaced Lionel Charbonnier as first-choice and was nicknamed ' Der Goalie ', a play on club legend Andy Goram's " The Goalie " moniker.

Beside many smaller poems he wrote two larger documents ( Der lieben heiligen Elisabeth won Thüringen and under the pseudonym Bernadus Amerikanus out of Eichsfeld in history and legend ").

He was probably at his best when teamed-up with fellow German movie legend Heinz Rühmann, as in Bomben auf Monte Carlo ( 1931 ) and Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war ( 1937 ).

* Alberich, dwarf in Richard Wagner ’ s Der Ring des Nibelungen and other versions of the Nibelung legend.

Bas Tovim herself became a figure of Jewish legend, such as the story " Der Zivug " by I. L.

Many of these stories were loosely based on popular classics, ranging from Alexandre Dumas over Buffalo Bill to Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, with as culmination his comic in two parts of the legend of Till Eulenspiegel, made for Kuifje.

Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo.

A figure named Hengest, who may be identifiable with the leader of British legend, appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and Beowulf.

Strmiska notes that Hecate, conflated with the figure of Diana, appears in late antiquity and in the early medieval period as part of an " emerging legend complex " associated with gatherings of women, the moon, and witchcraft that eventually became established " in the area of Northern Italy, southern Germany, and the western Balkans.

An often repeated legend appears to suggest that a massive 1690 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the buildings of the original capital Jamestown on the west coast.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

The legend of a sunken kingdom appears in both Cornish and Breton mythology.

Caradog, son of Bran, who appears in medieval Welsh literature, has also been identified with Caratacus, although nothing in the medieval legend corresponds except his name.

Rhubarb has been used for medical purposes by the Chinese for thousands of years, and appears in The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic, which legend attributes to the mythical Shen Nung, the Yan Emperor, but is thought to have been compiled about 2700 years ago.

All writers concur in representing it as a very ancient city ; Solinus and Stephanus of Byzantium ascribe its foundation to Diomedes ; a legend which appears to have been adopted by the inhabitants, who, in the time of Procopius, pretended to exhibit the tusks of the Calydonian Boar in proof of their descent.

Manannán figures widely in Irish literature, and appears also in Scottish and Manx legend.

In Russia, the legend of the Wandering Jew appears in an incomplete epic poem by Vasily Zhukovsky, " Ahasuerus " ( 1857 ) and in another epic poem by Wilhelm Küchelbecker, " Ahasuerus, a Poem in Fragments ", written from 1832 – 1846 but not published until 1878, long after the poet's death.

In 1967, the Wandering Jew appears as an unexplained magical realist townfolk legend in Gabriel García Márquez's 100 Years of Solitude.

On the obverse, the legend STATE OF OREGON is written above an escutcheon, which also appears in the Oregon state seal.

During the sixth and seventh centuries a purely legendary narrative of their martyrdom appeared which appears to be based upon other legends, especially on the legend of Poitus, and ornamented with accounts of fantastic miracles.

He appears in a legend of the Ngāti Awa, a Māori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island.

" Now " was also covered by power-pop legend Phil Seymour and appears on the 2011 CD edition of his 2nd album.

A local legend holds that the ghost of Andrew Jackson occasionally appears in the vicinity of a cabin in a town park.

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.

It appears that Akiva, authorized by certain rabbis, borrowed a large sum of money from a prominent heathen woman — a matrona, says the legend.

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.

The Oxford issues are very similar to the Shrewsbury one, except that the legend on the reverse appears in three lines rather than two, and the obverse legend appears as.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

The people who believe and retell the legend have apparently never troubled to read the trial testimony and do not know that the maid changed her testimony on several key points, always to the detriment of Lizzie.

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.

Since they have paid points for the items, they are a part of the character's legend, and cannot lightly be destroyed.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

While often cited as an Indian legend, the white doe seems to have its roots in English folklore.

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.

Other scientists who have shown varying degrees of interest in the legend are anthropologist David Daegling, field biologist George Shaller, Russell Mittermeier, Daris Swindler, Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist Carleton S. Coon.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

This legend may have originated from the vampire bat, an animal endemic to the region.

However, despite the widespread legend of tipping cows, numerous publications have debunked the practice's feasibility.

Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

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 origin of the ritual of the rex Nemorensis should have to be traced to the legend of Orestes and Iphigenia more than that of Hippolitos.

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.

Although he has become something of a political legend, Donald would have abhorred any attempt to turn him into some kind of secular saint.

Numerous mural versions of that legend from the 13th century onwards have survived ( for instance, in the hospital church of Wismar or the residential Longthorpe Tower outside Peterborough ).

" However, the legend of Galois pouring his mathematical thoughts onto paper the night before he died seems to have been exaggerated.

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 ).

His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few if any players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period.

This legend also has many other flaws ( it claims that Jingū was flown into the middle of the promised land and then conquered into Japan ) which have largely discredited the story among historians.