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Robin Hood of Sherwood
Robin Hood of Sherwood is a legend from Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, GB β a folk story passed down over generations. This file collects its origins, its meaning and how it has been retold.
Where does the legend of Robin Hood of Sherwood come from?
- Location
- Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, GB
- Kind of legend
- Folk tale
- Coordinates
- 53.206, -1.071
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What is the legend of Robin Hood of Sherwood?
In the greenwood of Sherwood Forest, medieval ballads tell, an outlaw named Robin Hood led a band of merry men against the injustice of the powerful. Dressed in Lincoln green and unmatched with the longbow, he robbed corrupt nobles, grasping abbots and above all the tyrannical Sheriff of Nottingham, sharing the spoils with the poor and oppressed. Around him gathered Little John, who bested him with a quarterstaff on a narrow bridge, the fighting friar Tuck, the minstrel Alan-a-Dale and his beloved Maid Marian. Again and again he humiliated the Sheriff, most famously by winning an archery contest in disguise, splitting his rival's arrow down the middle to claim the golden prize. The earliest surviving rhymes date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and though several real outlaws have been proposed as the original, no single man can be proven. Whether he lived or not, Robin Hood became England's enduring symbol of resistance to unjust authority, and Sherwood's ancient oaks still draw those who seek his ghost.
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