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This is the name likewise used by Maude Radford Warren in her 1914 collection Robin Hood and His Merry Men where he also serves as a self-appointed guardian of the peace. [24] Henry Gilbert in Robin Hood (1912) calls him Sim of Wakefield. [25] The Scotchman – A Scot who Robin met while on a journey north. He offered to serve Robin who refused ...
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
Merry Men (8 P) Pages in category "Robin Hood characters" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Little John is a companion of Robin Hood who serves as his chief lieutenant and second-in-command of the Merry Men.He is one of only a handful of consistently named characters who relate to Robin Hood and one of the two oldest Merry Men, alongside Much the Miller's Son.
In Pyle's wake, Robin Hood has become a staunch philanthropist protecting innocents against increasingly aggressive villains. [1] Along with the publication of the Child Ballads by Francis James Child, which included most of the surviving Robin Hood ballads, Pyle's novel helped increase the popularity of the Robin Hood legend in the United States.
Gavin Douglas mentions him alongside Robin in his Palice of Honure (1501). [5]In the 1840 story Robin Hood and Little John by Pierce Egan the Younger (translated into French, divided into two parts and resumed by Alexandre Dumas, published posthumously in 1872) Gilbert and his wife Margaret are Robin's foster parents (his real father according to the Egan/Dumas storyline was the Earl of ...
The Merry Men, the legendary followers of Robin Hood. Pages in category "Merry Men" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Robin and his men are moved by the knight's tale, and they offer him wine, the needed sum, tack and full livery befitting his station. Meanwhile, in Barnsdale Forest, Robin Hood commanded some of his merry men to prepare a feast fit for a king, and to the others he commanded them to bring him a wealthy knight or nobleman to join him in his meal ...