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 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.

This old Muisca tradition became the origin of the El Dorado legend.

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.

He claims that the origin of the legend of the falling flag comes from this confusion in the battle.

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.

Pohnpeian legend recounts that the Saudeleur rulers, the first to bring government to Pohnpei, were of foreign origin.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

Doubtless there is a considerable historical element in the legend, perhaps in the Phoenician origin of Europa ; it is possible that not only Athens, but Mycenae itself, were once culturally bound to the kings of Knossos, as Minoan objects appear at Mycenaean sites.

The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period.

The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or tales of outlaws.

The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from tales of outlaws, such as Hereward the Wake, Eustace the Monk, Fulk FitzWarin and William Wallace.

A popular legend, which has been around since at least 1937, traces the origin of the 4 ft 8½ in gauge even further back than the coalfields of northern England, pointing to the evidence of rutted roads marked by chariot wheels dating from the Roman Empire.

Gintaras Beresnevičius noted that such arrival has a lot in common with the origin legend of the Lombards.

The legend connecting Syrah with the city of Shiraz in Iran may, however, be of French origin.

Another legend of the grape variety's origin, based on the name Syrah, is that it was brought from Syracuse by the legions of Roman Emperor Probus sometime after AD 280.

Originating in the Palermo area, cannoli were historically prepared as a treat during Carnevale season, possibly as a fertility symbol ; one legend assigns their origin to the harem of Caltanissetta.

The origin of the name is uncertain: it has naturally been connected with the legend of Circe, and Victor Bérard ( in Les Phéniciens et l ' Odyssée, ii.

Pohnpeian legend recounts that the Saudeleur rulers, the first to bring government to Pohnpei, were of foreign origin.

To make this clearer they locate the origin of the legend in the course of the 7th century, during the dissensions between the British Church and the nascent mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury to the Saxons, recently arrived from Rome.

The legend of William Webb Ellis and the origin of the game is commemorated by a plaque.

According to some sources, his role in the origin of the Rosicrucian legend is controversial.

In German-speaking and northern European countries, " legend ", which involves Christian origins, is distinguished from " Saga ", being from any other ( usually, but not necessarily older ) origin.

William Camden, one of Spenser's main sources, comments on this legend of origin that

Another possible origin for the Cyclops legend, advanced by the paleontologist Othenio Abel in 1914, is the prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls – about twice the size of a human skull – that may have been found by the Greeks on Cyprus, Crete, Malta and Sicily.

This legend is the origin of the name.