Weekly Wikipedia Find: Legendary

Legendary is a wonderful word. Despite already being a Neil Patrick Harris catchphrase on the underrated post-millennial sitcom How I Met Your Mother and meaning "pertaining to legends," it has a third, equally awesome use. That is, it refers to a literary collection of legends. This collection, also known as legendarium, originally referred to, like hagiography, to texts studying the lives of saints. This can coalesce beautifully into an artificial (or modern) mythopoeia. I'm really enamoured of this idea of mythologies created around stories (i.e. an in-depth, never fully explained backstory) and may just have to start a series centred around the idea here on The Genius Defines.

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