This website is a personal homepage
for Legend40. I wanted to create a website that would
center around a theme involving legends. You will find
links from Paul Bunyan to Abraham Lincoln. Each and every
Legend featured is truly a legend, whether they were real
life, a myth or folklore. |
 According
to
Webster's Dictionary
Main Entry: leg·end
Pronunciation: 'le-j&nd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English legende, from Middle
French & Medieval Latin; Middle French legende, from
Medieval Latin legenda, from Latin, feminine of legendus,
gerundive of legere to gather, select, read;
akin to Greek legein to gather, say, logos
speech, word, reason
Date: 14th century
1 a : a story
coming down from the past; especially :
one popularly regarded as historical although not
verifiable b :
a body of such stories <a place in the legend of the
frontier> c :
a popular myth of recent origin d : a
person or thing that inspires legends e :
the subject of a legend <its violence was legend
even in its own time -- William Broyles Jr.>
2 a : an inscription or title on an object
(as a coin) b : 2 c : an
explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart
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