The legendary kings of Britain trace their family through a grandson of Aeneas, Brutus.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

Geoffrey provides prehistoric London with a rich array of legendary kings, such as King Lud ( see also Lludd, from Welsh Mythology ) who, he claims, renamed the town CaerLudein, from which London was derived, and was buried at Ludgate.

Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177.

This work, completed c. 1138, is an imaginative and fanciful account of British kings from the legendary Trojan exile Brutus to the 7th-century Welsh king Cadwallader.

Offa is a legendary king of the Angles in the genealogy of the kings of Mercia presented in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

In Valhalla, the dead join the masses of those who have died in combat known as Einherjar, as well as various legendary Germanic heroes and kings, as they prepare to aid Odin during the events of Ragnarök.

In the legendary history of Rome, Jupiter is often connected to kings and kingship.

He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a detailed history of the Norwegian kings that begins in the legendary Ynglinga saga and continues to document much of early Norwegian history.

Strikingly, Eric's historical obscurity stands in sharp contrast to the wealth of legendary depictions in the kings ' sagas, where he takes part in the sagas of his father Harald Fairhair and his younger brother Haakon the Good.

He was reputed to have conquered the whole of western Asia in 17 years with the help of Ariaeus, king of Arabia, and to have founded the first empire, defeating the legendary kings Barzanes of Armenia ( whom he spared ) and Pharnus of Medea ( whom he had crucified ).

The genealogies produced for Kings of Scots in the High Middle Ages traced their ancestry through Kenneth MacAlpin, through the Cenél nGabráin of Dál Riata to Fergus Mór, and then to legendary Irish kings such as Conaire Mór and the shadowy Deda mac Sin.

Arabic Muslim sources called this dynasty al-Khaqaniya (" That of the Khaqans "), while Persian sources often preferred the term Al-i Afrasiyab (" The Family of the Afrasiyab ") on the basis of the legendary kings ( though actually unrelated to the Karakhanids and authentic Turkics ) of pre-Islamic Transoxania.

Scholars have questioned the historicity of legendary kings of the ancient periods given by Sima Qian.

* List of legendary kings of Scotland

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Each of Rome's legendary or semi-legendary kings was associated with one or more religious institutions still known to the later Republic.

In Scandinavian mythology, Yngvi, alternatively Yngve, was the progenitor of the Yngling lineage, a legendary dynasty of Swedish kings from whom the earliest historical Norwegian kings in turn claimed to be descended, see also Freyr.

Early written sources show that already during pre-history, Gamla Uppsala was well known in Northern Europe as the residence of the Swedish kings of the legendary Yngling dynasty.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, they were speculated to hold the remains of three kings of the legendary House of Ynglings and were thus known by the names Aun's Mound, Adil's Mound and Egil's Mound.

The Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronises his reign with that of the Roman emperor Augustus ( 27 BC-AD 14 ), and after the birth of Christ, and makes him contemporary with legendary provincial kings Conchobar mac Nessa, Cairbre Nia Fer and Ailill mac Máta.

Various attempts have been made to harmonize these kings from the Frankish annals with the legendary kings found in the accounts of traditional historians such as Saxo Grammaticus and the sagas.

* Gram of Denmark, a legendary Danish king

* November 12 – Canute the Great, king of England, of Denmark, of Norway, part of Sweden, and the territories near the legendary Jomsviking stronghold Jomsburg

After the Haraldskær Woman was unearthed in Denmark, she was exhibited as having been the legendary Queen Gunhild of the early Mediaeval period.

The history section consists of a fragment of a list of Danish kings and a chronicle beginning with the legendary Danish king Hadding's son Frode and ending with Eric VI of Denmark.

* Roar ( dubious Danish king ), a dubious legendary king of Denmark

Similarly, when the Haraldskær Woman, a peat-bog mummy was found in southern Denmark in 1843, she was exhibited as the legendary Queen Gunhild of the early Mediaeval period.

** Ogier the Dane () A legendary hero of Denmark

Harald Wartooth or Harold Hiltertooth ( Old Norse: Haraldr hilditönn, modern Swedish and Danish: Harald Hildetand ) was a legendary king of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the historical northern German province of Wendland, in the 8th and 9th century.

Halfdan (,, Medieval, Proto-Norse: * Halbadaniz, " half Dane ") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding ( Skjöldung ) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.

The Battle of Brávellir or the Battle of Bråvalla was a legendary battle that is described in the Norse sagas as taking place on the Brávellir between Sigurd Ring, king of Sweden and the Geats of West Götaland, and his uncle Harald Wartooth, king of Denmark and the Geats of East Götaland.

He is the starting goalkeeper for the Denmark national football team, the successor to the legendary Peter Schmeichel, and he has played 100 matches for his country.

Another king visited by Ref is Ælle of England and the historical King Ælle of Deira could well be contemporary to the legendary Hrólf Kraki of Denmark.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark officially opened the building and declared that Chang " was an original thinker and saw the need for research and the development of heart assist devices and, not least, he is known for his legendary caring for his patients and their families ".

With the team, he won the 1978 domestic cup ( his entire campaign consisted of nine minutes in the final, against Hertha BSC ), but never got on with the manager or the harsh, disciplined atmosphere of a German dressing room, and eventually left ; one falling out with the legendary coach Hennes Weisweiler earned a legendary status in Denmark: Weisweiler approached Elkjær and said that he had been informed that the player had spent the night at a nightclub in the company of a bottle of whiskey and a lady, and wanted to know if that was true.

* Hrólf Kraki, legendary king of Denmark

Harthacnut or Cnut I () ( born c. 880 ) was a legendary King of Denmark.

At the age of 22 he was admitted to the 4-year directing program at the legendary National Film School of Denmark ( 1991 – 95 ) and directed the most award winning ( 11 awards ) graduation film, Never ( Gränsen ), in the history of the school.

Beowulf ( Ray Winstone ) is a brave legendary Geatish warrior who travels to Denmark alongside his band of soldiers, which include his best friend, Wiglaf ( Brendan Gleeson ), in answer to the call of King Hrothgar ( Anthony Hopkins ), who needs a hero to slay a monster called Grendel ( Crispin Glover ), a hideously disfigured troll-like creature with superhuman strength, who attacks Hrothgar's mead hall, Heorot, whenever the Danes hold a celebration there, and he was forced to close the hall.

This second group of sons are all eponymous ancestors of legendary families of the north.

There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are the religious, supernatural, tragic, love ballads, historic, legendary and humorous.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

However, the legendary connections between Essene and Kabbalistic tradition are not verified by modern historians.

Also, Macdonald Carey's legendary line " Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives " can be considered an epigram, as the meaning of life is concisely explained in a simile.

A Magic carpet, was legendary carpet that can be used to transport persons who are on it instantaneously or quickly to their destination.

The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE.

Many of the earlier legendary elements are interwoven in the 13th-century Vita Amlethi (" The Life of Amleth ") by Saxo Grammaticus, part of Gesta Danorum.

Some followers of the Golden Dawn tradition believe that the Secret Chiefs are not necessarily living humans or supernatural beings, but are rather symbolic of actual and legendary sources of spiritual esotericism, a great leader, or teacher of a spiritual path or practice that found its way into the teachings of the Order.

Bell Labs, the MIT AI and LCS labs, UC Berkeley: these became the home of innovations that are legendary and still potent.

The ruins of Ur, Babylon, and other ancient cities are situated in Iraq, as is the legendary location of the Garden of Eden.

Accounts that some non-Orthodox writers consider legendary are accepted as history within Eastern Orthodoxy, because they are a part of church tradition.

The legendary Robin Hood, initially under the name of Locksley, is also a character in the story, as are his " merry men.

Others, such as Troy and Bjarmaland, having once been considered legendary, are now known to have existed.

Since the historical Midas of the 8th century BC and Gyges are believed to have been contemporaries, it seems most likely that Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the earlier, legendary King Midas.

Also abundant in the Marvel Universe are legendary creatures such as gods, demons and vampires.

* According to some legendary accounts in the chronicles, the successors of Ne were the gopālavaṃśi or " Cowherd family ", whose names often end in-gupta and are said to have ruled for some 491 years.

Many of the legendary stars ' dressing rooms are still standing today, converted into working offices.

According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, " ost Hindu places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives of various gods ....

In the category of " myth ", he includes many legendary accounts that are " secular " for all practical purposes.

Real, legendary, and fictional episodes from the Reconquista are the subject of much of medieval Galician-Portuguese literature, Spanish literature, and Catalan literature, such as the cantar de gesta.

Musics like " Samba do Arnesto " and " Saudosa Maloca " turned into legendary musics, and nowadays are recognized as " the real Samba Paulistano ".

An alternate view takes qe-ra-si-ja and qe-ra-si-jo as proof of androgyny, and applies this name by similar arguments to the legendary seer, Tiresias, but these views are not mutually exclusive of one another.