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  Robin Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the medieval era who, in modern versions of the legend, is famous for his robbing the rich to feed the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny.
Robin Hood himself is reputed to be buried in the grounds of Kirklees Priory near Brighouse in West Yorkshire.
In 2003, Defender of the Crown was re-mastered and re-released as Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown.
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 Literature cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another cycle that is frequently drawn upon is centered on the Trojan War; the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and countless other epic poetry that draws on this body of tales.
Irish literature includes four cycles: the Fenian Cycle (the tales of Finn mac Cool and the Fiana); the Mythological Cycle; the Historical Cycle; and the Ulster Cycle (the tales of Cu Chulain).
The York cycle of mystery plays described the entire history of salvation in 47 plays that were developed in York in the 14th through 16th centuries.
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Robin Hood is an enduring figure in English folklore and popular culture.Over the years his appeal is undiminished and his popularity is reflected in the many films and television series which have been based upon the tales.
However, the evidence that Robert Hood of Wakefield was the Robin Hood of legend is inconclusive.The theory that the name Robin Hood was a nickname for outlaws is based upon entries in Court records.
According to these sources, Robin Hood was active in the 1190s, declared outlaw in 1225 (almost identical to Robertus Hod) and died in 1247 which would put him in his seventies at the time of his death.
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 robinhood
Robin, in the role of Summer King, defeats Guy of Gisborne, the villain whose appearance in a horse-hide is utterly inexplicable, unless, of course, he represents the Winter King in his animal skins.
Robin is the protector of the innocent, the defender of the weak and poor.
Robin, the outlaw archer, banished to the forest, like Rama, is accompanied by his wife Marian (from the early 16th century at least) and his loyal lieutenant (and, in a 17th century version, cousin) Little John.
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 Maid Marian - LoveToKnow 1911
There is no evidence that she had originally any connexion with the Robin Hood cycle.
In the ballads on Robin Hood her name is twice casually mentioned, but there is a late ballad, by a certain S. Child, English and Scottish Ballads, i.
Their several histories were fused by the Elizabethan dramatists, and associated with the Maid Marian of the morris dance, who up to that time had probably only a vague connexion with Robin Hood.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Maid_Marian   (310 words)

  
 ROBIN HOOD: EARL, OUTLAW OR REBEL?
Robin Hood is easily the most enduringly popular of all the legendary heroes of the past.
In one of the earliest ballads, Robin Hood and the Monk, there is a sense that the solidarity of the outlaws and the freedom of the forests provide security against the alien, corrupting forces of organised religion and the legal system.
The Robin Hood legend was rooted in the widespread desire for liberty amongst the poor, a desire which was rooted in the oppressions of medieval life, and intensified by the social changes of the 16th and 17th century, the brutal enclosures of the land, civil war and encroachment of the market.
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 §5. His extant Plays founded on Ballads and Folk-lore. XIII. Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists. Vol. 5. The Drama to ...
Munday’s new subject is the Robin Hood cycle of legends and ballads, which had been connected with dramatic representations early in the sixteenth, and even in the fifteenth, century.
It cannot be claimed that the attempt to identify Robin Hood with Robert earl of Huntington, and Maid Marian with the “chaste Matilda” whom king John persecuted, is artistically successful; the two elements of history and folklore are not satisfactorily fused together.
But Robin is a youth remarkable for his good looks and the ward of prince Richard, afterwards Cœur de Lion; his action in the play is subordinate.
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 ROBIN HOOD: CRITICAL STUDIES
Brockman, Bennett A. "Robin Hood and the Invention of Children's Literature." Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 10 (1982): 1-17.
Hoffman, Dean A. "'With the Shot Y Wyll/Alle Thy Lustes to Full-Fyl': Archery as Symbol in the Early Ballads of Robin Hood." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 86 (1985): 494-505.
"The Paradoxes of Robin Hood." Folklore 91 (1980): 198-210.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/rhbib.htm   (4352 words)

  
 PARANOIA - The Secret History of King Arthur and Robin Hood
Robin Hood is therefore the 'Bright Hood,' a similar name to the Naga serpent worshippers or deities of India, with their illuminated serpent or cobra hoods.
Robin's link with the 'Horned God' is also telling as he is Lord and Master over the human 'animals' of the Forest and they are guardians of their stolen treasure, like the hoarding, serpent Nagas of Hinduism.
Robin Hood may well have some aspects of his personality and acts in real people, but most historians would steer away from stating anything as fact.
www.paranoiamagazine.com /kingarthur.html   (2773 words)

  
 The Poor Knight - The Legend of Robin Hood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Robin asks for payment for the meal, but the knight cannot pay because he is in debt to the Abbey of St Mary's for 400 pounds.
Robin lends the knight 400 pounds, and on a certain day the knight returns to repay his debt to the outlaws.
Robin and his men are found out and pursued by the Sheriff to the castle of the 'gentyll knyght' who has now acquired a name, 'Syr Rychard at the Lee'.
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 §3. Outlaw Ballads and Political Songs. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History ...
In the fourteenth century, “rimes of Robin Hood and Randolph, earl of Chester,” are mentioned in Piers the Plowman as known to the common men of that day.
Robin Hood ballads are preserved; the Randolph cycle is lost.
The forged chronicle of Croyland says that “ballads” about Hereward were still sung, in the chronicler’s day, by the common people and by women at the dance.
www.bartleby.com /212/1703.html   (779 words)

  
 The Heroic Age: Lucius Artorius Castus, N/B
By 1261-2 C.E., the legend of Robin Hood had developed sufficiently for the surname Robinhood to appear in British documents (Holt 1989:187) and for a clerk change an outlaw's name from "William son of Robert" to "William Robehod" (Holt 1989:188-189).
Granted, the gap between the historical Robin Hood and the use of his name is only about one-tenth the size of the gap between Castus and the first recorded use of the name "Arthur" (in Y Gododdin, ca.
This sort of development is precisely what occurred in the Robin Hood legends, with outlaws suddenly being referred to as "a Robin Hood" in court records (Holt 1989:188-189).
www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2lac2.htm   (5450 words)

  
 De Proverbio - Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies. Proverbs, Quotations, Sayings, Wellerisms.
"Many a one sings of Robin Hood knows little where he was born" bears a relationship to "Many (talk) speak of Robin Hood, that never shot in his bow," this is, many people talk about something of which they know little.
Used in the introductory stanza of the B and C variants and in the concluding lines of A, the proverb encourages the listener to trust the balladeer and believe the account he is about to give.
Robin Hood was fighting with Sir Guy and having trouble.
www.deproverbio.com /DPjournal/DP,5,2,99/SWETERLITSCH/BALLAD.html   (2814 words)

  
 Robin Hood Super Spec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
No one has had more affairs with suspension than Robin Hood and now without the financial restraints of having to produce a system to a fixed price and with a working lifetime of experience the Super Spec has the best suspension system yet.
This is included in the price of the Super Spec kit and consists of a hood, a pair of side screens a set of stainless steel lift off hinges a fixing kit and a two piece hood frame.
The Robin Hood's Sub K chassis for example, whilst being part of the most inexpensive kit was probably the best.
www.robinhoodengineering.co.uk /superspec.htm   (1274 words)

  
 Rip Rowan: ProRec Interview: Robin Hood Brians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Robin Hood Brians is a true Texas character.
Over the years Robin has become a kind of folk hero in Tyler, a modest celebrity whose claim to fame to some of the more non-musical locals is that he has a pizza named after him.
I've known Robin for a few years, and when I met him he quickly became a dear friend to me. From Robin I have learned much of what little l know about recording, and among the few people I've met in the "biz" Robin is the most honest and real.
www.prorec.com /prorec/articles.nsf/articles/DA8CF0758E5114ED8625679800735868   (7072 words)

  
 ROBIN HOOD - Online Information article about ROBIN HOOD
Both his name and his exploits remind us of the woodland spirit Robin Goodfellow and his merry pranks.
Peele actually alludes to the bandit as " Robin of the Wood." Mr Gutch thus explains the origin of the name.
How certain it is that the Robin Hood story attracted to it and appropriated other elements is illustrated by its subsequent See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /RHY_RON/ROBIN_HOOD.html   (2282 words)

  
 British Crossroads
Robin Hood is a well designed site maintained by Ben Turner, collecting the works of many contributors.
Robin Hood -- Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood by Allen W. Wright is a high quality site offering extensive historical and legendary information on England's favorite outlaw and his Merry Men.
The Ulster Cycle by Patrick Brown, includes a fabulous collection of tales covering Early Ulster, Cú Chulainn, Connacht, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, and the Fall of Ulster.
www.mythiccrossroads.com /british.htm   (1039 words)

  
 News: Robin Hood Macintosh Demo - GamersHell.com
Do not only take on the role of the hero Robin Hood, but also the roles of his faithful vassals and take them to the battle field against the nasty Prince John Lackland.
Robin learns, that the Sheriff of Nottingham has caught his nephew Will Scarlet and with the help of a few of his men will have to try to set him free.
You can control Robin or any of his merry men by clicking on their images at the bottom of the screen.
www.gamershell.com /news/17786.html   (583 words)

  
 Jon Bradbury's Robin Hood DOHC Lux
I am building what is known as a Robin Hood Project 2B DOHC "Lux" kit car which is a 7-esque replica except its much heavier than the original mainly because it is based on a Ford Sierra (its also got a stainless steel spaceframe chassis and body panels so not much rust to worry about).
The actual kit I have is a new model for Robin Hood Engineering (RHE) which uses the Sierra 2.0l DOHC variant for the donor car, either in carb or fuel injected form.
Cycle wing brackets are made up of a central bracket that the dummy McPherson strut passes through and two arms that actually hold the wing in place.
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 Robin Hood Foundation Library Initiative
So began the Robin Hood Foundation's library initiative, which has evolved into a unique collaboration with New York City's Board of Education to create, fund, and maintain school libraries in some of the most impoverished areas of the city's five boroughs.
Yet after the completion of the third cycle, there will be more than 55 new libraries built with 595 more to go, to fulfill the Robin Hood Foundation's goal of completing a school library for each of the 650 public schools in New York City.
While Robin Hood's library initiative is 100 percent in New York City, the idea of public/private partnerships to effect change in student performance and schools nationwide is both its promise and example.
www.businessweek.com /innovate/content/nov2005/id20051121_120112.htm   (1781 words)

  
 Mediaeval Stage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In November Chettle ‘mended Roben hood for the corte’ … At Christmas 1600, Henslowe had another play of ‘Roben hoodes penerths’ by William Haughton … An earlier ‘pastoral pleasant comedie of Robin Hood and Little John’ was entered on the Stationers’ Registers on may 18, 1594.
These two are lost, as is The May Lord which Jonson wrote … Robin Hood also appears in Peele’s Edward I (1590), and the anonymous Look About You (1600), and is the hero of Greene’s George a Greene the Pinner of Wakefield (1593).
Anthony Munday introduced him again into his pageant of Metropolis Coronata (1615), and a comedy of Robin Hood and his Crew of Soldiers, acted at Nottingham on the day of the coronation of Charles II, was published in 1661.
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Following the sale of Robin Hood Sports Cars, the new owner has decided to clear out some of the vehicles from the extensive collection of historical, interesting, classic, prototype and ex-demonstration cars that he acquired in the sale.
When Robin Hood were struggling to convince the public how strong their monocoques were in the early '90's, a V12 Jaguar engine and Gatrag gearbox were fitted to a standard body/chassis unit with Jaguar independent rear axle.
Body/chassis units (three available) produced by Robin Hood Engineering that were a very close copy of Colin Chapman's original popular sports cars, a few additions, wishbone, uprights, etc. included, one body/chassis unit is very interesting as it is aluminium and the forerunner to the present Lightweight.
www.robinhoodsportscars.co.uk /carsforsalereal.htm   (3347 words)

  
 BBC - Nottingham Features - The Robin Hood Pageant
The grounds of Nottingham Castle are transformed into a medieval village one weekend every year for the Robin Hood Pageant.
All your favourite characters will be there to join in the fun – from Friar Tuck, if he can be lifted onto his horse, to the fair Maid Marian, held at the mercy of the Sheriff.
The question on everybody’s lips is whether Robin Hood himself will dare to appear at the home of his arch enemy to save her and save the day!
www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/robin_hood/pageant/the_event.shtml   (312 words)

  
 Robin hood kitcars identification
The other drawback with this type of suspension is that it is nearly impossible to fit cycle wings, due to the buttresses.
Due to the fact that RH have always tried to keep the price of their kits as cheap as possible, it has in the past reflected in the design of the cars, and the quality of some of the components supplied, this then brings further problems with use of the built car.
I would advice anyone thinking of building or buying a Robin Hood to first of all visit one or two of the usual kitcar shows, and talk to the Owners Club members.
nw.rhocar.org /identification.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Recipe Details - Robin Hood
Use Robin Hood Best For Bread Homestyle White Flour to ensure the best results every time.
ROBIN HOOD Best For Bread Homestyle White Flour
When dough cycle is complete, remove dough to floured surface.
www.robinhood.ca /recipe.details.asp?prcid=12&rid=91   (218 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - Robin Hood, robin hood car, DVDs, CDs items at low prices
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 'Muslim Robin Hood'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
TEHRAN — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative who becomes Iran's president on Wednesday, is hailed by the devout poor as a Robin Hood figure who will give them a slice of the Islamic republic's abundant oil wealth.
Ahmadinejad, 49, fought an election campaign in June that stressed the values of the 1979 Islamic revolution and won by a landslide, trouncing candidates whose glossy campaigns focused on restoring ties with the West.
He faces a rough ride in his early days as president, with Iran edging towards possible UN Security Council sanctions over a nuclear programme which Washington says is aimed at developing atomic bombs.
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Another great series of Greek poems is the Theban Cycle, which comprises the Thebais, by some unknown author, wherein is related in full the story of Oedipus, that of the Seven Kings before Thebes, and the doings of the Epigoni.
The principal poems of this cycle are Launcelot du Lac, Ivain le Chevalier au Lion, Erec and Enide, Merlin, Tristan, and Perceval.
In this cycle are also included Gerard de Roussillon, Hugues Capet, Macaire (wherein occurs the famous episode of the Dog of Montargis), and Huon de Bordeaux, which latter supplied Shakespeare, Wieland, and Weber with some of the dramatis personae of their well-known comedy, poem, and opera.
www.gutenberg.org /files/13983/13983.txt   (21892 words)

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