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A Gest of Robyn Hode (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. Written in late Middle English poetic verse, it is an early example of an English language ballad, in which the verses are grouped in quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme, also known as ballad stanzas.
Sir Robin Day (24 October 1923 – 6 August 2000) was an English political journalist and television and radio broadcaster. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Day's obituary in The Guardian by Dick Taverne stated that he was "the most outstanding television journalist of his generation.
The motto appears on a scroll beneath the shield on the version of the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom used outside of Scotland.. Dieu et mon droit (French pronunciation: [djø e mɔ̃ dʁwa], Old French: Deu et mon droit), which means ' God and my right ', [1] [2] is the motto of the monarch of the United Kingdom. [2]
The Barbary lion is an unofficial national animal of England. In the Middle Ages, the lions kept in the menagerie at the Tower of London were Barbary lions. [6] English medieval warrior rulers with a reputation for bravery attracted the nickname "the Lion": the most famous example is Richard I of England, known as Richard the Lionheart. [7]
The term the Crown does not have a single definition. Legal scholars Maurice Sunkin and Sebastian Payne opined, "the nature of the Crown has been taken for granted, in part because it is fundamental and, in part, because many academics have no idea what the term the Crown amounts to". [4]
A depiction of George VI being crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1937, while wearing the Supertunica, Stole Royal and Robe Royal. The Robe Royal (also known as the Pallium Regale, [1] Imperial Mantle [2] or Dalmatic Robe [2]) is a robe worn by the British monarch when he or she is crowned.
The History of the Baskin Robbins Logo. Ice cream runs in this family. When Burt Baskin opened Burton’s Ice Cream Shop in Glendale, California, in 1945, it only took another year for his brother ...
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 ...