History continued...

[Vergil83]

Reverence for a mere written document to both was anathema.

Do tell us when you finish that article. It sounds like an interesting read.

[fingal]

I just ordered it from Amazon, so thanks. I rather like the fact that you seem to know something about social history ... It's a pet topic of mine, though not from any academic point of view.

Stories about Robin Hood may be true. Who cares? I've driven through Sherwood Forest ... It's real to me..

I hope you enjoy it

Robin Hood is a really interesting thing. Even if it is mostly legend, the reason it remains so popular today tells something about peoples wishes for society and what they think is justice.

Historically - I mean many years ago - Nottingham was where poor and dispossessed people went to live. With the Robin Hood story it's hard to separate fact from fiction. Despite the fact that Hollywood has helped to reinvent the legend, some of Robins' 'Merry Men' were added to the story much later ...

'Robin' used to be a generic name for a 'fairy' (stop laughing, this is serious ) ... For eg., Robin Goodfellow. Linked to this is the motif of the green man. Many medieval churches and cathedrals contain carvings of strange heads wreathed in leaves and branches.

So was Robin Hood an outlaw or a pagan spirit of the woods? Was he a confusion of both these ideas? We'll never know.

[winter]

I just ordered it from Amazon, so thanks. I rather like the fact that you seem to know something about social history ... It's a pet topic of mine, though not from any academic point of view.

Stories about Robin Hood may be true. Who cares? I've driven through Sherwood Forest ... It's real to me..

I hope you enjoy it

Robin Hood is a really interesting thing. Even if it is mostly legend, the reason it remains so popular today tells something about peoples wishes for society and what they think is justice.

Historically - I mean many years ago - Nottingham was where poor and dispossessed people went to live. With the Robin Hood story it's hard to separate fact from fiction. Despite the fact that Hollywood has helped to reinvent the legend, some of Robins' 'Merry Men' were added to the story much later ...

'Robin' used to be a generic name for a 'fairy' (stop laughing, this is serious ) ... For eg., Robin Goodfellow. Linked to this is the motif of the green man. Many medieval churches and cathedrals contain carvings of strange heads wreathed in leaves and branches.

So was Robin Hood an outlaw or a pagan spirit of the woods? Was he a confusion of both these ideas? We'll never know.

theresno absolute evidance for robin hood how ever it is belived that the myth could be based upon several real people who had lived around that area through out the medeval and tudor period. All these people were considerd outlaws.