Pirates, Gladiators and Legends

Beowulf: Is the story based on a real person?

Brethren of the Coast: Loose confederation of pirates - (see fourth and fifth paragraphs)

Dracula: The true story of Vlad Tepes ("Vlad the Impaler")

Gladiators: "Hail, Caesar, those about to die salute thee"

Grendel: Monster from Anglo-Saxon times (or earlier?)

Grendel's Mother: A "sea hag" monster who seeks revenge

Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae: The Greeks lost after one of their own betrayed them

Pirates of the Caribbean

Port Royal: A base for Caribbean pirates, it was greatly damaged in a 1692 earthquake

Remember the Alamo: The Story of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis

Spanish Main: Its association with pirates

Tortuga: A Caribbean island then described as "the common place of refuge for all sorts of wickedness, the seminary of pirates and thieves"

Trolls: Are they real?

Trojan Horse: A story of Achilles, Ulysses (Odysseus) and the Trojan War