Whosoever violates our rooftree, the legend states, can expect maximal sorrow.

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.

The legend states the origin of the flag to the Battle of Lyndanisse, also known as the Battle of Valdemar ( Danish: " Volmerslaget "), near Lyndanisse ( Tallinn ) in Estonia, on June 15, 1219.

The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.

Another legend states that in a competition of battle to become King Sancho's " Campeador ", or champion, a knight on horseback wished to challenge El Cid.

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.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

A Viking legend states that Vikings used to take caged crows aboard ships and let them loose if they got lost.

The short story, " The Enchanted Buffalo ", claims to be a legend of a tribe of bison, and states that a key element made it into legends of Native American tribes.

Welsh legend states that when Wales is threatened again he will rise from his unknown resting place in order to lead the defence of Wales, quite like the legend of King Arthur.

A common legend states that in the second year of the Hsüan-ho, in the Sung dynasty 1120 AD, a certain official memorialized the throne, praying that the ya p ' ai ( ivory cards ) be fixed as a pack of 32, comprising 127 pips it should be 227, but Chinese printers are careless, in order to accord with the expanse of the stars and constellations.

The Nags Head legend states that in the 18th century, wreckers would hang lanterns from the necks of mules ( colloquially called " nags " at the time ) and walk the animals very slowly up and down the beach.

The legend specifically states that there was an eastern land in Honshū " whose people disobeyed the imperial court ", against whom Yamato Takeru was sent to fight.

After the battle, legend states that John's personal crest ( a pair of black wings ) and motto Ich dien (" I Serve ") were adopted in slightly modified form by Edward, the Black Prince, and since then they have been part of the badge of the Prince of Wales.

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.

Another legend states that when Barbarossa was in the process of seizing Milan in 1158, his wife, the Empress Beatrice, was taken captive by the enraged Milanese and forced to ride through the city on a donkey in a humiliating manner.

The legend most promoted today states that he was Rwandan.

The founding legend of Gojoseon, which is recorded in the Samguk Yusa ( 1281 ) and other medieval Korean books, states that the country was established in 2333 BC by Dangun, said to be descended from heaven.

The foundation legend of the Kingdom of the South Saxons is given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which states that in the year AD 477 Ælle arrived at a place called Cymenshore in three ships with his three sons.

A legend told at Carnac states that its stones were once pagan soldiers who had been turned into stone by Cornelius, who was fleeing from them.

His legend states that Caius took refuge in the catacombs of Rome and died a martyr.

Another legend states that in the 14th century, Brussels was under siege by a foreign power.

The denim used was produced by an American textile manufacturer ( popular legend states the denim was obtained from Nimes, France ).

The exact place of his burial is difficult to establish – legend states that he requested to be buried before the High Altar.

The legend has it that the monks of the abbey asked Pierre-Joseph Boch for this favor.

One legend tells that, prior to the arrival of Henry's commissioners, the monks covertly removed Cuthbert's body from the cathedral, reburying it in a secret location within the grounds of Crayke Abbey.

Today, the legend continues, the true location is known only to 12 monks, its whereabouts only revealed to one of their brothers when one of their number dies.

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According to what is probably a legend, at the urging of the monks of San Juan de la Peña Peter planned to join on the Crusade of 1101 and make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but Pope Paschal II refused to allow it and ordered him to make war on Zaragoza instead.

However, legend says the monks were shown the best site for settlement by a mighty griffin, living in a tree that was supposed to have grown on Greifswald's oldest street, the Schuhagen.

In the local legend of the town's founding " St. Ronan Cleik't the Deil by the hind leg and banished him ", possibly a metaphor for the monks bringing Christian learning back into these regions.

Eisner explains that Irish monks of this time would have been familiar with the Greek and Roman narratives that the legend borrows from such as Pyramus and Thisbe ; they would also have been familiar with the Celtic elements of the story such as The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne.

Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites ; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the 6th century ; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer ( d. 708 ); Theophilus the Maronite, an astronomer, who translated into Syriac verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; the anonymous author of the Chronicon Edessenum ( Chronicle of Edessa ), compiled in 540 ; the writer of the story of " The Man of God ", in the 5th century, which gave rise to the legend of St. Alexius, also known as Alexius of Rome ( because exiled Eastern monks brought his cult and bones to Rome in the 10th century ).

The Pixie Day legend originates from the early days of Christianity, when a local bishop decided to build a church in Otteri ( Ottery St. Mary ), and commissioned a set of bells to come from Wales, and to be escorted by monks on their journey.

The Pixie Day legend originates from the early days of Christianity, when a local bishop decided to build a church in Otteri ( Ottery St. Mary ), and commissioned a set of bells to come from Wales, and to be escorted by monks on their journey.

* The legend of the Dun Cow and the milkmaid who guided the monks of Lindisfarne carrying the body of Saint Cuthbert to the site of the present city of Durham in 995 AD.

According to legend, long ago the fountain had gone dry before as soon as the monks of the valley's monastery built a bath with it ; the bath was destroyed and the water instantly returned, but this time it has stopped with no clear cause.

From at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area was frequently associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon.

For monks to justify it by creating new Buddhist lore, the earliest appearance of the frequently cited legend concerns Bodhidharma's supposed foundation of Shaolin Kung Fu dates to this period.

There is a legend that the Chartreux are descended from cats brought to France by Carthusian monks to live in the order's head monastery, the Grande Chartreuse, located in the Chartreuse Mountains north of the city of Grenoble ( Siegal 1997: 27 ).

According to legend, Cistercian monks left Pinot Noir cuttings at monasteries along their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

According to legend, Llywelyn the Last, the final prince of an independent Wales, was interred in a stone coffin by the monks in 1282, on land where Llanrumney Hall would be built centuries later.

Again, legend has it that the design for the palace was based on a building seen in one of the heavens by a group of monks, who drew the design with ' red arsenic on linen ' and dispatched it to the king.

Another local legend states that the tunnel was between the Abbey and the Scotch Piper in order to allow monks to escape the public house.

This legend includes the story of three monks ( Theophilus, Sergius, and Hyginus ) who " wished to discover the point where the sky and the earth touch " ( in Latin: ubi cœlum terræ se conjungit ).

After recounting the legend he remarks that " the preceding monks hoped to go to heaven without leaving the earth, to find ' the place where the sky and the earth touch ,' and open the mysterious gateway which separates this world from the other.

In the legend of St. Macarius, the monks do not in fact find the place where earth and sky touch.