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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Lycia's king, Iobates, ordered a young warrior named Bellerophon to slay the chimera as a favor to a neighboring king, Proetus, who wanted Bellerophon dead.

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Legends and myths about Arthur have seen him cast as a king who held court in Wales, a Scottish politician and a Cornish warrior.

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Affianced to the lovely Imoinda, the warrior prince Oroonoko, heir to a west African throne, is obliged to suffer the king his grandfather's insistence on his droit de seigneur.

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