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Author: LordGro

Jan 5th 2013 at 7:22:44 AM

I still haven't launched this page as I'm still torn on the works list. The point is that only religious legend is clearly defined as a genre of literature. But 'heroic legend' isn't strictly a genre in itself, rather a body of tradition that has been adapted into various genres and media: The 'classical' genre that presents heroic legend are heroic epics like the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', but there is also theatre based on heroic legend, i.e. the Greek tragedies. But strictly speaking, both epics and tragedies are ''adaptations'' of legend, not legend in itself.

Besides, I'd rather not give the impression that the three categories I defined are strictly mutually exclusive, or the only categories imaginable. For example, I classified WilliamTell as a folk legend, but by my own definition he could just as well go under heroic legend. In fact, it seems to me heroic legend in general can be considered a branch of folk legend.

To illustrate my earlier suggestion to split the works lists off, I have filed a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=2qg4nwdf4or50yswbv8ure0o Heroic Literature YKTTW]]. I think it would make a pretty clear-cut genre page and if it is accepted, then maybe the 'heroic legend' works list on this page becomes redundant.