Fast forward a few thousand years and according to the ancient Greek legend, Jason took the mythological Golden Fleece from King Aietes in Colchis, which is now part of Georgia.

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It boasts over 40, 000 stone columns which legend said the giant Finn McCool, the warrior and commander of the king of Ireland's armies, built to cross to Scotland.

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Legend says, there lived a King in Kerala, the southernmost state of India, who surrendered his entire territory to a twice born kid.

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As William led his men ashore in southeast England on their way to what was to become the historic Battle of Hastings, legend has it that this man-who-would-be-king rather ignominiously stumbled and fell face-first into the mud.

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