Little John A Begging (Roud 3988, Child 142) is an English folk song about Robin Hood. It exists in two variants, one fragmentary. In one variant, Robin...

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...

and the Butcher (Child Ballad 122) *Little John a Begging (Child Ballad 142, in Forresters titled Little Johns Begging) Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires...

Begging (also known in North America as panhandling) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation...

a fragment of which is preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Robin Hood and Little John walk through the forest. Robin speaks of a bad...

played by Anna Galvin, and then by Barbara Griffin. She lives with Robin, Little John and Friar Tuck in Sherwood Forest. In the 2000 film Blackadder: Back...

and Little John (Foxx) – a fierce Arabian warrior who wants to put an end to the Crusades. Armed with arrows and dubbed Robin Hood, Loxley leads a band...

recognise John as his heir presumptive in the final years before his death, but the matter was not clear-cut and medieval law gave little guidance as...

Scathelocke and Shacklock) is a prominent member of Robin Hood's Merry Men. He is present in the earliest ballads along with Little John and Much the Miller's...

the bishop's robes, marries Alan to his bride. In other versions it is Little John or Friar Tuck who performs the ceremony. Another variant appears in which...

The ballads tell the story of a large hunting party upon a parcel of hunting land (or chase) in the Cheviot Hills, a range of rolling hills straddling...

"Robin Hood and the Butcher", "The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield", "Little John a Begging", "Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires", and "Robin Hood and Queen...

Wind" is an allegory to the hope of progress. Arthur sends little Tom (Sir Thomas Mallory) to be a vessel and carry on his ideas from his famous round table...

all the land." Robin recruits Little John and Will Scarlet O'Hara to help regain his father's land and oust Prince John from the throne. On his quest...

as Lord Locksley Michael Wincott as Guy of Gisborne Nick Brimble as Little John Harold Innocent as the Bishop of Hereford Walter Sparrow as Duncan Daniel...

kills a page boy so the boy cannot bear word that the outlaws killed the monk of the title. He then disguises himself as the page and Little John disguises...

John Rutter (with the Cambridge Singers), the Poor Clares from New Orleans ("Cherry Tree Carol" on their album Songs for Midwinter), Sting (If on a Winter's...

wet nurse was Hodierna of St Albans, whom he gave a generous pension after he became king. Little is known about Richard's education. Although he was...

a neck wound prior to his own demise. Robin asks Little John to perform the sacraments and last rites for him quickly to get right with God. Little John...

Hood". Taking place in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, the story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John, and the inhabitants of...

John Ballantyne and William Laidlaw as amanuenses. For the second half of the manuscript, Scott was able to take up the pen, and completed Ivanhoe: A...

enforcer to the primary antagonist Prince John, collecting unlimited taxes and hunting Robin Hood and Little John. This version is depicted as being far...

as Friar Tuck Oscar Isaac as Prince John Danny Huston as King Richard the Lionheart Kevin Durand as Little John Scott Grimes as Will Scarlet Matthew...

Nottingham. The early ballads give specific names to only three companions: Little John, Much the Miller's Son, and William Scarlock or Scathelock, the Will...

Hood Nykeem Provo as Little John, Robyn's right-hand man and member of The Hood Idrissa Sanogo as Alan A. Dale (based on Alan-a-Dale), The Hood's music...

albums, and years: John Myers Myers tells a variant in Silverlock (1949) The Armourer's House, by Rosemary Sutcliff (1951) -- includes a telling of the Tam...

hero outlaw. King John of England (formerly Prince John) visited Nottingham in 1199 and 1202. Later King Henry III of England held a court in Nottingham...

Andy Devine. He is taken to be executed at the end of the film in a plot of Prince John's to lure Robin Hood out of hiding but is rescued in time. In the...

Pallette as Friar Tuck, Alan Hale, Sr. as Little John, Basil Rathbone as Guy of Gisborne, Claude Rains as Prince John, Patric Knowles as Will Scarlet, Melville...

enraged, insulting Daguerre and is outlawed as a result. He flees into Sherwood Forest, meets John Little and the usual cast of Merry Men and under the...