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/.
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Exploring legends in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts.
Popular legends retold by Horace E. Scudder (1900); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
Eleven legends retold by Selma Lagerlöf (1908); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology describing a variety of tales.
European legends from the Middle Ages, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1908), e-text from Kellscraft Studio.
Collected and retold by Charles Godfrey Leland (1895), e-text from Making of America.
By Wilhelm Ruland (1906) with illustrations; e-text at Kellscraft Studio.
Exploring legends in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts.
A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology describing a variety of tales.
Collected and retold by Charles Godfrey Leland (1895), e-text from Making of America.
Eleven legends retold by Selma Lagerlöf (1908); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
European legends from the Middle Ages, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1908), e-text from Kellscraft Studio.
By Wilhelm Ruland (1906) with illustrations; e-text at Kellscraft Studio.
Popular legends retold by Horace E. Scudder (1900); e-text at the Baldwin Project.
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