For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

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.

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

The title of this book revived the Ashes legend and it was after this that England v Australia series were customarily referred to as " The Ashes ".

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

Aphrodite also became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis ' lover and his surrogate mother.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

In Etruscan legend, he was known as Aivas Vilates.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

The subject was apt for a papal state seeking clout, since it depicts the historical legend when the greatest of the popes Leo, with supernatural aid, deterred the Huns from looting Rome.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

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.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

The legend that Joseph was given the responsibility of keeping the Holy Grail was the product of Robert de Boron, who essentially expanded upon stories from Acts of Pilate.

He returned to the material in 1845, to make a larger work, with some additional text by Almire Gandonnière to Berlioz's specifications, that he first called a " concert opera ", and as it expanded, finally a " dramatic legend ".

Later writers expanded the legend, giving accounts of missionary activity under Lucius and attributing to him the foundation of certain churches.

This legend was originally written in the 6th century in Syriac and was later translated into Arabic and expanded upon.

Kayley is based on the character Lynette from The King's Damosel, who was an expanded version of Lynette of Arthurian legend.

In the comic book series Gotham Central, the purpose of the Bat-Signal is further expanded upon ; as Batman's existence is not officially recognized by the Gotham City authorities, the Bat-Signal is explained as a method of using the " urban legend " around Batman to terrify Gotham's criminal underworld.

The connection between Tristan and Iseult and the Arthurian legend was expanded over time, and sometime shortly after the completion of the Vulgate Cycle ( or Lancelot-Grail Cycle ) in the first quarter of the 13th century, two authors created the vast Prose Tristan, which fully establishes Tristan as a Knight of the Round Table who even participates in the Quest for the Holy Grail.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Coin of Alfred, king of Wessex, London, 880 ( based upon a Roman model ). Obv: King with royal band in profile, with legend: ÆLFRED REX " King Ælfred ".

Chrétien was thus " instrumental both in the elaboration of the Arthurian legend and in the establishment of the ideal form for the diffusion of that legend ", and much of what came after him in terms of the portrayal of Arthur and his world built upon the foundations he had laid.

According to legend, he died of grief upon hearing news of the defeat of the Crusaders in July 1187 at the Battle of Hattin.

In another legend of Saxons and Britons, in 472 the invading king Hengist invited Brythonic warriors to a feast, but treacherously ordered his men to draw their weapons from concealment and fall upon the guests, killing 420 of them.

The legend affirms that Theodemar was then guided to the spot by a star, drawing upon a familiar myth-element, hence " Compostela " was given an etymology as a corruption of Campus Stellae, " Field of Stars.

There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.

It is not superstition ; it is not a legend ; it is founded upon faith and experience, and justified at every stage in our political history ".

This legend I heard from other Phœnicians as well ; and the coinage current among the Sidonians bears upon it the effigy of Europa sitting upon a bull, none other than Zeus.

In that year, Gautier, drawing upon Deburau's newly acquired audacity as a Pierrot, as well as upon the Romantics ’ store of Shakespearean plots and of Don-Juanesque legend, published a " review " of a pantomime he claimed to have seen at the Funambules.

In particular, he based his novel upon the legend of " The Wizard of Alderley Edge ", a story which revolved around a king and his sleeping knights who rest beneath the hill, waiting for the day when they must awake to save the land.

The cathedral is built on a gravel bed with unusually shallow foundations of upon wooden faggots: the site is supposed to have been selected by shooting an arrow from Old Sarum, although this can only be legend as the distance is over.

* The song Faerie Queen by Heather Alexander seems to draw upon this legend.

Over subsequent episodes their history, their development of time manipulation, and their internal politics were touched upon, with Time Lord society portrayed as a stagnated ceremony-bound oligarchy and their past having descended into myth and legend.

Suda's extraordinary account of the poet's death is found in other sources, such as Plutarch and Antipater of Sidon and later it inspired Friedrich Schiller to write a ballad called " The Cranes of Ibycus " yet the legend might be derived merely from a play upon the poet's name and the Greek word for the bird or ibyx — it might even have been told of somebody else originally.

Ethiopia has been claimed for many years as the origin of the Prester John legend, but most modern experts believe that the legend was simply adapted to fit that nation in the same fashion that it had been projected upon Ong Khan and Central Asia during the 13th century.

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.

" The process of settling upon the name of Santa Claus has been lost to legend.