Directory of Legends Resources

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Legends are folktales about extraordinary events, often involving meetings with the supernatural, set in a specific time and place, and featuring specific people. Legends may or may not have a historical or factual basis, but they are told as true and believed or believable. There are legends told about places (local legends), saints (religious legends), and heroes (heroic legends). For more modern legends, see Society/Folklore/Literature/Urban_Legends/.

Subcategories

• Arthurian
• Atlantis
• Bluebeard
• Don Juan
• El Dorado
• Faust
• Hercules
• Holy Grail
• Robin Hood
• Troy
• Ulster Cycle

Resources in This Category

• Christ Legends

  http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=lagerlof&book=christ&story=_contents
  Eleven legends retold by Selma Lagerlöf (1908); e-text at the Baldwin Project.

• Folktexts

  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
  A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology describing a variety of tales.

• Heroic Legends

  http://www.kellscraft.com/heroiclegendscontent.html
  European legends from the Middle Ages, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1908), e-text from Kellscraft Studio.

• Legends of Florence

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ADT9834
  Collected and retold by Charles Godfrey Leland (1895), e-text from Making of America.

• Legends of the Rhine

  http://www.kellscraft.com/LegendsRhine/legendsrhinecontents.html
  By Wilhelm Ruland (1906) with illustrations; e-text at Kellscraft Studio.

• Shine: The Concept of the World in Macedonian Folk Legends

  http://www.blesok.com.mk/tekst.asp?lang=eng&tekst=44
  Essay by Ermis Lafazanovski discussing pre-Christian and Christian ideas on the concept of the world as present in Macedonian legends.

• The Best of Legends

  http://bestoflegends.org/
  Exploring legends in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts.

• The Book of Legends

  http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=scudder&book=legends&story=_contents
  Popular legends retold by Horace E. Scudder (1900); e-text at the Baldwin Project.

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