Robin Hood and the Shepherd is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad...
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Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. He stole...
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Robin Hood's Death, also known as Robin Hoode his Death, is an Early Modern English ballad of Robin Hood. It dates from at the latest the 17th century...
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Maid Marian (redirect from Robin Hood and Maid Marian)
is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions of the legend...
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Guy of Gisbourne (redirect from Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne)
Gysborne, or Gisborn) is a character from the Robin Hood legends of English folklore. He first appears in "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne" (Child Ballad 118)...
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Robin Hood and the Monk is a Middle English ballad and one of the oldest surviving ballads of Robin Hood. The earliest surviving document with the work...
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The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (Child 132, Roud 333) is an English folk song, forming part of the Robin Hood canon. A pedlar meets Robin Hood and Little...
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collected the work as Child Ballad 144. In the song, Robin Hood and some of his men, disguised as shepherds, poach a deer in an area where they know the Bishop...
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Percy Folio (redirect from The Percy Folio)
Hood ballads: "Robin Hood's Death," "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne," "Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar," "Robin Hood and the Butcher," "The Jolly Pinder...
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Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne is Child Ballad 118, part of the Percy collection. It introduces and disposes of Guy of Gisborne who remains next to the...
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Robin Hood and the Potter is a 15th century ballad of Robin Hood. While usually classed with other Robin Hood ballads, it does not appear to have originally...
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Tam Lin (section Popular recordings of the ballad)
Fairies' Cupbearer" in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry by Allan Cunningham (1822) "Wild Robin" in Little Prudy's Fairy Book by Sophie...
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"Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow" (Roud 3994, Child 152) is an English folk song, part of the Robin Hood canon. It features an archery competition for...
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Robin Hood and Little John is Child ballad 125. It is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century...
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"Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar" (Roud 1621, Child 123) is an English-language folk song about Robin Hood. This ballad is one of those appearing in later...
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Close to the Bone. It was also recorded by Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor for the album Scottish Choice (1961). Live version recorded by The Corries on...
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Child Ballads (redirect from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads)
form as fairy tales. A large part of the collection is about Robin Hood; some are about King Arthur. A few of the ballads are rather bawdy. Many Child...
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hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders—hence, Chevy Chase. The hunt is led by Percy, the English Earl...
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directed by Richard Lester and written by James Goldman after the legend of Robin Hood. The film stars Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Lady...
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Francis James Child (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was...
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in 1896 and the second half of the 1960s, all of them before 1910. The oldest version of the ballad – labeled 243 A in Child's anthology and originally...
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A Gest of Robyn Hode (redirect from A Gest of Robin Hood)
various Robin Hood tales, arranged as a sequence of adventures involving the yeoman outlaws Robin Hood and Little John, the poor knight Sir Richard at the Lee...
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Alan-a-Dale (category Robin Hood characters)
figure in the Robin Hood legend. According to the stories, he was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin's band of outlaws, the "Merry Men"...
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"The Cherry-Tree Carol" (Roud 453) is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). The song...
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article: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 26 "The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook...
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as the Auchinleck MS. is dated about 1330; Harley 3810 is from about the beginning of the fifteenth century; and Ashmole 61 was compiled over the course...
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(1999), Knight, Stephen Thomas (ed.), "Rymes of Robin Hood", Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, pp. 73–4, ISBN 0859915255...
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Sir Lionel (category Knights of the Round Table)
Arthurian legend. He is the younger son of King Bors of Gaunnes (or Gaul) and Evaine and brother of Bors the Younger. First recorded in the Lancelot-Grail cycle...
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Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale is a traditional English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad No. 138 and as Roud Folk Song Index No. 3298. The ballad uses...
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Barbara Allen (song) (redirect from The Ballad of Barbara Allen)
(1940) Scrooge (1951; released in the U.S. as A Christmas Carol) Robin Hood Daffy (1958; Warner Brothers cartoon) The Buccaneer (1958), sung by Claire...
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