Sentence examples for heroic legend from inspiring English sources

Kriemhild, in Germanic heroic legend, sister of the Burgundian kings Gunther, Gernot, and Giselher.

But Keegan is quite ready to sacrifice the heroic legend to the duller truth.

Maybe nobody – not even Depp himself – could ever live up to the heroic legend of Johnny Depp.

At its height, the culture supported the splendor of palaces at Mycenae and Pylos and inspired the heroic legend of the Trojan War, immortalized in Homer's Iliad.

Historical narrative painting includes Classical mythology and heroic legend, as well as the representation of contemporary events; examples include Benjamin West's Death of Wolfe, Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, and Goya's The 3rd of May in Madrid.

The six volumes were extremely lucrative and helped Churchill win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953; more important, they allowed him to write his own heroic legend — a formidable hurdle for subsequent biographers to jump.

The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends.

The Exodus has long since passed into one of the heroic legends of the Israeli state.

Mabinogion, collection of 11 medieval Welsh tales based on mythology, folklore, and heroic legends.

The Hun destruction of Worms and the Burgundian kingdom inspired heroic legends in the epic poem Nibelungenlied (c. 1200).

Heroic legends, pathetic moral stories, and brilliant farces all blended spectacle and lyricism and were as acceptable to a sophisticated court audience as to a popular street audience.