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about robin hood
shamus:
Read JC Holt's book.
Bottom line: there were outlaws in history who used the moniker "robin hood", "Robert Hod, "HobbyHod", etc, but there is no definitive evidence pointing an original Robin Hood.
Legends are often based on some truth, with a little bit of fiction thrown in. As such, pinpointing the original Robin Hood just hasn’t happened, and probably won’t.
Dane:
Hey, I thought the Kevin Costner movie was totally true to life, including Robin's accent. :)
I read somewhere a while back that Robin may have been based on the Irish Fianan (spelling? Don't have my reference books here right now, but I think it is in the Táin Bó Cúailnge). Those guys were the ultimate woodsmen, and champions of the oppressed. Just getting in the group meant you had to be almost superhuman.
Dane
Kegan:
From what I've gatehred, and I could easily be wrong, Robin Hood was a character based on a few archer crooks who fled to some bit of woods as a worst-case-scenario. They were poor archers, and lived by poaching (usually small game?) and theft. Of course, this led to the wonderful legend that we know, and that has been twisted.
On a side note, I have a book, Robin Hood, written about the time of Pope's Hunting with the Bow and Arrow, which in iteself is kinda neat (whilst the Brits were still singing their old legends we were living new ones :D ;)- just joking). But moreso, Pope's book was dedicated to Robin Hood, who was still in vogue in seems!
Also, even in the story Robin Hood (Robert Fitzooth) was just a poor kid, decent with the bow, who was sorta tricked into being a poacher. Anyway, he was just some peasent who wanted ot be a forrester, not a noble who had everything taked away by the Sherrif.
Sorry for butting in :-X
bow-toxo:
What? A leader of a band of outlaws in one of the many royal forests, in an area infested with outlaw bands, and they shot deer to eat rather than starve, and the leader was one of the people named Robin Hood? What an unbelievable story!
kerbinator:
:D My opinion is Robin was a Yeomen who went rogue. Then got his own mob together to fight for the less fortunate. Whatever he done would be remembered for centuries. Being an archer on a battle field your bound to see some things.
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