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.

Pausanias and Herodotus both recount the legend that the Achaeans were forced from these homelands by the Dorians, during the legendary Dorian invasion of the Peloponnese.

This account now is thought by some historians to be mostly legendary, although essentially the underlying story of a rebelling mercenary force may be accurate, and the date for the founding of the kingdom of Kent is thought to be approximately the middle of the fifth-century, in agreement with the legend.

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 ).

In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called " Cruachan ," also known as " Ireland's gate to Hell ," a legendary and ancient cave from which according to legend strange creatures would emerge in ancient times and be seen on the surface of the earth.

La Malinche's legacy is one of myth mixed with legend, and the opposing opinions of the Mexican people about the legendary woman.

Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend.

In his book " The Meaning of Trees: botany, history, healing, lore " Fred Hageneder writes on page 149, " According to Breton legend, the legendary wise man Merlin climbed the Pine of Barenton ( from bel nemeton, " Sacred Grove of Bel "), just as shamans climb the World Tree.

Even though some historians emphasize folklore roots for the Rurik legend and consequently dismiss Rurik as a legendary figure, there is a controversy about his ethnic origins in Eastern Europe.

The dual pipe system, the advanced architecture, and the apparent layout of the Akrotiri find resemble Plato's description of the legendary lost city of Atlantis, further indicating the Minoans as the culture which primarily inspired the Atlantis legend.

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.

Simek additionally points out legendary parallels in a Bavarian legend of a shepherd who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague ( citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder ).

Tradition maintains that Braunschweig was created through the merger of two settlements, one founded by Brun, a Saxon count who died in 880, on one side of the river Oker – the legend gives the year 861 for the foundation – and the other the settlement of a legendary Count Dankward, after whom Dankwarderode Castle ( Dankward's clearing ), which was reconstructed in the 19th century, is named.

From the moment a legend is retold as fiction its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a literary anecdote with " Gothic " overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.

Faie became Modern English fay " a fairy "; the word is, however, rarely used, although it is well known as part of the name of the legendary sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend.

Several now legendary events took place on the Wartburg in the following decades, best known is the " Singers ' Contest on the Wartburg " ( Sängerkrieg, which is part of the Tannhäuser legend ).

According to legend, during the reign of the legendary Emperor Shun and Yu in China, in 2281 BC castration was passed into law as a punishment, which remained so until the reign of Gaozu ( 589 – 600 AD ).

In the 1964 – 65 season, the 76ers acquired the legendary Wilt Chamberlain from the Warriors ; Chamberlain had been a high school legend in Philadelphia and began his career with the Warriors while they still played in Philadelphia.

Oenomaus ' chariot race was one legendary origin of the Olympic Games ; one of its turning-posts was preserved, and round it grew an Elean legend of a burnt " house of Oenomaus ", reported by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE.

") However, some etymologies suggest it derives from the old Gaelic for " raven ", a bird laden with mystical meaning for the Celts, and often used to mean " legend " or " legendary ".

William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.

Simek additionally points out legendary parallels in a Bavarian legend of a shepherd who lives inside a tree, whose descendants repopulate the land after life there has been wiped out by plague ( citing a retelling by F. R. Schröder ).