While, in his adult life, he seemingly didn't visit England outside his coronation, he did live there until he was 13

While I have no proof, I strongly suspect that Edward the Martyr might not have been present for the decision to give him that nickname

Dimensions in Time and Power of the Doctor would push it up to 15 for McCoy

And none of the gods/philosophers remark on Sisyphus managing to have the boulder stay at the top of the hill

I'd be very surprised if that was the case, the medieval writers first recording the legend would've seen no problem with driving out pagans, so would be unlikely to euphemise it. More likely it was just a legend invented to explain why Ireland doesn't have any snakes

Tolstoy, at least by the latter part of his life, was an anarchist (though didn't identify as such as, being a pacifist, he was opposed to the political violence anarchism was associated with)