Robin Hood is known by everyone as the English outlaw hero, dashing through the greenwood with his band of merry men to rob from the rich and give to the poor, before feasting on poached deer under the stars. Read here.
Generations of wandering minstrels in the Middle
Ages spread stories far and wide in England by singing ballads about the
exploits of the violent but heroic yeoman Robin Hood who lived in Sherwood
Forest with his merry band of men and clashed with the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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. Her history and circumstances are obscure, but she commanded high respect in Robin’s circle for her courage and independence as well as her beauty and loyalty. For this reason, she is celebrated by feminist commentators as one of the early strong female characters in English literature.
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