Friday Funday: Robin Hood.

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Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the tale of Robin Hood.

Robin Hood is a legendary Heroic Outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retelling he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the crusades before returning to England and finding his lands taken by the sheriff. In the oldest known versions he is instead a member of the yeomen class. Traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green, he is said to have robbed from the rich and given to the poor

Through retelling, additions, and variations, a body of familiar characters associated with Robin Hood has been created. These include his lover, Maid Marion, his band of outlaws, The Merry Men and his chief opponent, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Sheriff is often depicted as assisting prince John in usurping the rightful but absent King Richard, to whom robin remains loyal. His partisanship of the common people and his hostility to the Sheriff of Nottingham are early recorded features of the legend, but his interest in the rightfulness of the king is not, and neither is his setting in the reign of Richard 1^st, he became a popular figure in the late Middle Ages, and the earliest known ballads featuring him are from the 15^th century (1400's).

there have been numerous variations and adaptions of the story over the subsequent years, and the story continues to be widely represented in literature, film and television. Robin Hood is considered one of the best known tales of English folklore.

The historicity of Robin Hood is not proven and has been debated for centuries. There are numerous references to historical figures with similar names that have been proposed as possible evidence of his existence, some dating back to the late 13^th century. At least eight plausible origins to the story have been mooted by historians and folklorists, including suggestions that “Robin Hood” was a stock alias used by or in reference to bandits.

- Robin Hood Wiki

The historical accuracy of Robin Hood has been debated for centuries, the difficulty with historical research is the commonality of the name Robin or Robyn was a common diminutive in Medieval England especially during the 13^th century. The surname Hood, Hude or Hode was also a very common name at this time usually linked to Hooders -those who made hoods- or alternatively those who wore a hood as a head covering, as such there were a lot of robin hoods around and some of them would -no doubt- would have fallen foul of the law. Another view on the name is that hood is a common dialectical form of wood and that the outlaws name could be Robin Wood. There are many mentions and references to Robin Hood as Robin Wood, Whood or Whod from the 16^th and 17^th centuries earliest recorded example dates from 1518 in connection with May Games In Somerset, England.

Most of the eldest references of Robin Hood come from various hints and illusions in various work rather than historical records or even ballads recounting exploits. From 1261 onwards there have been several versions of the name Robin Hood, there have been at least eight references to 'Rabunhod' in various regions across England from Berkshire in the south and York in the north. The first quasi-historical Robin Hood is given in Andrew Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle, written around 1420 the lines occur with little contextualisation under the year 1283:

“Lytil Jhon and Robyne Hude

Wayth-men ware commendyd gude

In Yngil-wode and Barnysdale

Thai oysyd all this tyme thare trawale.”

- Robin Hood Wiki

There has been several movies and TV shows depicting the robin hood legend or has ties to they story in a general sense. The most well known have been:

• 1938 movie starring Errol Flynn,
• 1973 Disney movie were the characters were drawn as animals
• 1991 movie by Kevin Cosner
• 1993 comedy musical movie
• 2006-2009 a BBC TV series
• 2010 movie starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.

There is at present little or no scholarly support for the view that the tales of robin hood have stemmed from mythology or folklore, from fairies or other mythological origins, any such associations being regarded as later development. It was once a popular view however. The “Mythological theory” dates back to at least to 1584, when Reginald Scott identified Robin Hood with the Germanic goblin “Hudgin” or Hodekin ans associated him with Robin Goodfellow, Maurice Keen provides a brief summary and useful critique of the evidence for the view Robin Hood had mythological origins. While the outlaw often shows great skill in archery, sword play and disguises his feats are no more exaggerated than those of characters in other ballads such as Kinmont Willie, which were based on historical events.

Robin Hood has also been claimed for the pagan witch cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe, and his anti-clericalism and Marianism interpreted in this light., the existence of the witch cult as proposed by Murray is now generally discredited.

- Robin Hood Wiki

Robin was one of the first stories I heard as child and the 19073 Disney movie of the same name was the first Robin Hood related movie I ever saw. As a child, Robin Hood was one of my all-time favorate movies to watch and stories to hear. the 2006-2009 tv series is rather high up on my list of reccomended TV shows and the 2010 Robin Hood movie is on the Movie List too.  I have to admit Robin Hood is a very well known and wide spread myth and as such there is a lot of material both movie and book wise related to it. If you haven't heard it or know much about the story I highly recommend you look it up.

THE WEBSITE BIBLIOGRAPHY:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls059739616/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_and_television_series_featuring_Robin_Hood

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