2007-03-15 04:27:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Likewise reporter lad. Don't cheek your elders !
2007-03-15 04:49:37 · update #1
Lets Eat George
2007-03-15 04:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by Smurf 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The word "legend" appeared in the English language circa 1340, transmitted from medieval Latin language through French. Its first blurred extended (and essentially Protestant) sense of a non-historical narrative or myth was first recorded in 1613. By emphasizing the unrealistic character of "legends" of the saints, English-speaking Protestants were able to introduce a note of contrast to the "real" saints and martyrs of the Reformation, whose authentic narratives could be found in Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Thus "legend" gained its modern connotations of "undocumented" and "spurious". In German speaking and northern European countries the "legend", which involves Christian origins is distinguished from "Saga", being from any other (usually, but not necessarily older) origin.
Before the invention of the printing press, stories were passed on via oral tradition. Storytellers learned their stock in trade: their stories, typically from an older storyteller, who might, though more likely not, have actually witnessed the "story" was "history". Legend is [[distinguished from the genre of chronicle]] by the fact that legends apply structures that reveal a moral definition to events, providing meaning that lifts them above the repetitions and constraints of average human lives and giving them a universality that makes them worth repeating through many generations.
2007-03-15 04:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by Max 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French legende, from Medieval Latin (lcti) legenda, (lesson) to be read, from Latin, feminine gerundive of legere, to read; see leg- in Indo-European roots
Definition and all...the words legible, legate and legislator share the same root...
2007-03-15 04:32:50 · answer #3 · answered by jgirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story doesn't have a leg to stand on.
2007-03-15 08:13:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's quite hip to be a legend !!
2007-03-15 04:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by nicemanvery 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Without it the whole thing would collapse
2007-03-15 04:35:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The ankle!
2007-03-15 04:30:24 · answer #7 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
LEG=BEGINING END=FINISH
2007-03-15 04:31:20 · answer #8 · answered by colin050659 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
....legitimate egotistical guavas.....
2007-03-15 04:31:55 · answer #9 · answered by Buttsmear 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
...... Dunno ..... but Leg ENDS in de FEAT ..........
2007-03-15 10:14:19 · answer #10 · answered by rjr 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋