Legend

:For other senses of this word, see legend (disambiguation).

Some legends

• Atlantis, especially when its "actual site" is hunted for (Plato used the myth as a parable);
• Cenodoxus, or the Damnation of the Good Doctor of Paris, an event leading ultimately to the Sanctification of St. Bruno of Carthusia;
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, when the "real Arthur" is identified in 6th century Cornwall;
• The Holy Grail;
• El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth, which both evolved from legend to myth;
• Vlad the Impaler; the legend from which vampire mythology is said to derive;
• Robin Hood
• Roland
• William Tell