According toMaldivianlegend, aSinhaleseprincenamedKoimalaa was stranded withhisbride — daughterofthekingofSri Lanka — in a Maldivian lagoon and stayed on to ruleas the firstsultan.
St Andrew was the first ever apostle and brother to Simon Peter and after his death, legend has it that a Greek Monk called St Rule was warned in a dream to move his remains.
The Mongols, while indeed being the fierce horsemen of legend, did, having established their empire which stretched from Northern China to Western Europe, then rule it as a free trade area.