As a kid I loved comics and I loved Robin Hood. I had a toy boy and arrow and I played Robin Hood in the Orchard behind my house for hours. When I started reading comic books, it was only natural that I was drawn to the ‘hero archers’ of the comics world. For DC [...]
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Comments (0) he was a good outlawe, And dyde pore men moch god. From a 14th Century Ballad “…puts a brilliant spin on the traditional tales of Robin Hood and Maid Marian.” School Library Journal on The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate As we head to the end of summer, it is time to let the Outlaw [...]
Comments (0) Hello Readers, I’m taking a break from our usual discussions of the Outlaw of Sherwood this week as I’m prepping to leave for San Diego Comic Con. Or as I like to refer to it: Heaven. I’ll be speaking on a panel on Sunday from 12 noon to 12:50 in room 24 ABC of the [...]
Comments (0) In summer time, when leaves grow green, When they doe grow both green and long, Of a bould outlaw, calld Robin Hood, It is of him I sing this song. When the lilly leafe and the elephant Doth bud and spring with a merry good cheere, This outlaw was weary of the wood-side, And chasing [...]
Comments (1) O what have they done?’ said bold Robin Hood, I pray thee tell to me.’– It’s for slaying of the King’s fallow deer, Bearing their long bows with thee.’– ‘Dost thou not mind, old woman,’ he said, Since thou made me sup and dine? By the truth of my body,’quoth bold Robin Hood, ‘You could [...]
Comments (0) There chanced to be a Pedlar bold, A Pedlar bold there chanced to be; He put his pack all on his back, And so merrily trudged over the lea. By chance he met two troublesome men, Two troublesome men they chanced to be, The one of them was bold Robin Hood, And the other was [...]
Comments (1) Have you visited your local cinema yet to see the new Russell Crowe starring, Ridley Scott directed Robin Hood? What did you think? As someone who has researched this time period and the individuals involved, the film doesn’t do a bad job with the history. With the exception of King Philip’s desire to invade England, [...]
Comments (2) Robert Earle of Huntington Lies under this little stone. No archer was like him so good; His wildnesse named him Robbin Hood. Full thirteene yeares, and something more, These northerne parts he vexed sore. Such out-lawes as he and his men May England never know agen Said to be the epitaph of a “Robin Hood” [...]
Comments (1) “You shall never the poor man wrong… You shall defend with all your power Maids, widows, orphants (sic) and distressed men…” – An oath Robin Hood is said to have required of his followers It might be impossible to overemphasize how ingrained in medieval English society the Robin Hood legend became during the high Middle [...]
Comments (0) “This infant was call’d John Little,” quoth he. “Which name shall be chang’d anon, The words we’ll transpose, so where- ever he goes, His name shall be called Little John.” – English Ballad The Merry Men who followed Robin Hood in legend, song and stories are nearly always portrayed as a happy group of outlaws [...]
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