Legendarium
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A legendarium is a collection of legends.
This obscure medieval Latin noun originally referred mainly to texts detailing legends of the lives of saints. Quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary for the synonymous noun legendary date from 1513. The Middle English South English Legendary is an example of this form of the noun.
In modern times, the legendary normally refers to the adjective instead of the noun. The legendarium form is still found in several European languages, and was in occasional use in the English language when J. R. R. Tolkien used it to refer to his fictional writings about Middle-earth (see Tolkien's legendarium).
[edit] References
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner (2006). The Ring of Words. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 153–154. ISBN 0-19-861069-6.
