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The love interest to Robin of Loxley Marian was an interesting character with a varied past and many versions of her tale, sometimes a sheltered noblewoman but originally a skilled fighter capable defeating her lover at the end of a long sword fight. She swore off marrying him until he had...
A biography of Maid Marian, romantic interest of Robin Hood and member of the Merry Men, intended for beginners or those who need a basic sense of the modern legend. Useful for children and teens.
Maid Marian is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions of the legend, but was the subject of at least two plays by 1600.
1. More than Maid Marian, often given the containing sobriquet "Maid," is both an intermittent and elusive figure in the Robin Hood myth. She does not appear in the late medieval yeoman ballads or, with one exception, their seventeenth and eighteenth century broadside ballad descendants.
Maid Marian is a vixen and the tritagonist of Disney's 1973 animated feature film Robin Hood and is the love interest and later wife of the title character, based on the character from the actual Robin Hood legend. She is voiced by Monica Evans, who previously voiced Abigail Gabble, while Nancy...
Other articles where Maid Marian is discussed: Robin Hood: …(which gave Robin a companion, Maid Marian) also lost most of their vitality and poetic value, doubtless as a result of losing the original social impulse that brought them into existence. Other articles where Maid Marian is discussed: Robin Hood: …(which gave Robin a companion ...
Maid Marian is the deuteragonist of The Adventures of Robin Hood and the titular character's love interest. In Robin and the 7 Hoods, she is played by the late Barbara Rush. Maid Marian is never mentioned in any of the earliest extant ballads of Robin Hood. She appears to have originally been a...
