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Apr 12, 2019 · The earliest Robin Hood tales survive from late 15th-century England. Our main source is the lengthy poem The Gest of Robin Hood, compiled sometime after 1450. This was a period of...
May 17, 2024 · Robin Hood, legendary outlaw hero of a series of English ballads, some of which date from at least as early as the 14th century. Many of the tales about him show him and his companions robbing and killing representatives of authority and giving the gains to the poor.
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May 5, 2010 · The subject of ballads, books and films, Robin Hood has proven to be one of popular culture’s most enduring folk heroes. Over the course of 700 years, the outlaw from Nottinghamshire who robs ...
1. c.1377 The lazy priest Sloth is ignorant of his Paternoster, but knows ‘rymes of Robyn Hood,’ the earliest certain mention of England’s greatest outlaw hero, in William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Its full title is — The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Do-wel, Do-bet, et Do-best, secundum Wit et Resoun; usually given in Latin as Visio Willelmi ...
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May 5, 2005 · The Robin Hood of modern folk-mythology is a creature built up, generation by generation, to meet the needs and desires of his audience. The earliest Robin Hood was a yeoman, not a wronged nobleman, who haunted Barnsdale Forest, not Sherwood; he didn't become a Saxon or mere Englishman fighting the Norman oppressor until Sir Walter Scott dressed him up for his walk-on in Ivanhoe.
A collection of ballads about the outlaw Robin Hood, A Lytell Geste of Robin Hode, was published in England around 1489. From it and other medieval sources, scholars know that Robin. Robin Hood, the legendary thief of England, stole from the rich and gave the wealth to the poor. Stories about his life and adventures first appeared in the late ...
Robin is a free man, indeed a "prude" and "curteyse" outlaw, and his audience is gentle and free-born. It may be argued that the views of the compiler of the Gest are not evidence of the original. content and social atmosphere of the ballads. But there is no strong. evidence for such an argument and much against it.
