Real Hood, however now enlarged and disguised by the accretions However different from the hero of the trouvères, so there was a Story, and hold that, just as there was probably a real Arthur, Hood story has some historical basis, however fanciful and Child dismisses his inferences asįor our part, we are not disinclined to believe that the Robin He points is undoubtedly striking, but had failed to convince Wakefield showing that a “Robyn Hod” and a “Robertus Hood” In a brochure published in 1852 produced evidence from theĮxchequer accounts and the court rolls of the manor of Rebel earl of Lancaster of Edward II.'s time. Gutch maintains that he was a follower of Simon de Norman Conquest, and compare Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe). So late as the end of the 12th century (see Augustin Thierry's Saxons - as a Saxon holding out against the Norman conquerors He has been represented as the last of the These are the facts about him and his balladry. In fact, it does for the Robin Hood cycle what a few yearsīefore Sir Thomas Malory had done for the Arthurian romances This isĮvidently founded on older ballads we read in The Seconde Fytte, 11. Pollard'sįifteenth Century Prose and Verse, Westminster, 1903). Most important of all is A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, which was first printed about 1510 (see A. 174) Robin Hood and the Potter and Robyn and Gandelyn are certainly not later than theġ5th century. (see Thomas Wright's Essays on England in the Middle Ages, ii. Of the ballads themselves, Robin Hood and the Monk is possiblyĪs old as the reign of Edward II. Munday, Camden, Stow, Braithwaite, Fuller, &c. See the works of Shakespeare, Sidney, Ben Jonson, Drayton, In the Elizabethan era and afterwards mentions abound Sed latronum omnium humanissimus et princeps erat.” Nullam opprimi permisit nec pauperum bona surripuit, verum eosĮx abbatum bonis sublatis opipare pavit. Rebus hujus Roberti gestis tota Britannia in cantibus utitur. Latrociniis aluit, quos 400 viri fortissimi invadere non audebant. Centum sagittarios ad pugnam aptissimos Robertus Nisi eos invadentem vel resistentem pro suarum rerum tuitione Latuerunt, solum opulentorurn virorum bona deripientes. Hudus Anglus et Parvus Joannes latrones famatissimi in nemoribus “Circa haec tempora, ut auguror, Robertus
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