very famous and talked about a lot by people 非常著名的;享有盛名的 - [only before noun]
mentioned in stories from ancient times 传奇的;传说的 legendary heroes 传奇故事中的英雄
compare fabled
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a collection of legends, especially of saints' lives): from medieval Latin legendarius, from legenda ‘things to be read’, from Latin legere ‘read’.