'historical legend' is an acceptable phrase in written English and can be used to refer to a story or narrative from the past, usually involving some notable figures.
For example, "The historical legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is one of the most famous stories of medieval England."
What happened next has become part of historical legend, a tale told to every American schoolchild.
The grand hotels of historical legend very seldom make it to the site's top ranks.
Manuel de Jesus Galván continued the trend with his fictional epic Enriquillo: leyenda histórica dominicana (1879 82; "Enriquillo: Dominican Historical Legend"; Eng. trans. The Cross and the Sword), which depicted Spanish settlers' brutality toward Taino Indians.
The Lusitania sank in 18 minutes, with a recorded loss of 1,201 lives.In this section In harm's way Breadth doesn't mean depth The two faces of Martha What the world is reading The moment is now Hugh Grant ReprintsThese are the bare facts of a maritime atrocity that in historical legend dragged a reluctant America into the first world war.
Here he spelled out his views on the Salmond-era SNP – with its alleged desire for "a people drugged on historical legend" – and on the referendum, whose lowered voting age (to 16) and proximity to the Bannockburn anniversary he decried as dangerous "electoral manipulation".
The dreadful (if popular) historical legend cast her suicide as the ritual restoration of her honor.
In Iran many of the historical legends and myths had been borrowed and turned into high literature by Ferdowsī.
Thus, Shanno, with a team of fellow artists who were her supporters, conceived and executed the concept of performing opera on Punjabi and medieval Indian folk tales and historical legends.
Unlike other ancient Chinese works, whose allegories were usually based on historical legends and proverbs, most Zhuangzi stories seem to have been invented by Zhuangzi himself.
While historical legends of science had the luxury of being solo artists, today's best scientists must be more akin to conductors of orchestras.
... now historical urban legend, left the world without a digital catastrophe.
