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2. Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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   This fragment appears to tell the story of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. [51] There is also an early playtext appended to a 1560 printed edition of the Gest. This includes a dramatic version of the story of Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar and a version of the first part of the story of Robin Hood and the Potter. (Neither of these ballads is ...

3. King Raven Trilogy - Wikipedia

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   The King Raven Trilogy is a series of historical novels by American writer Stephen R. Lawhead, based on the Robin Hood legend. Lawhead relocates Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest in Nottingham to Wales, and sets the story in the late eleventh century, after the Battle of Hastings and to coincide with the Norman invasion of Wales and the struggles the Cymry (Welsh) people against the Normans, and ...

4. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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   It helped move the Robin Hood legend out of the realm of penny dreadfuls and into the realm of respected children's books. [3] After Pyle, Robin Hood became an increasingly popular subject for children's books: Louis Rhead's Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band (1912) and Paul Creswick's Robin Hood (1917), illustrated by Pyle's pupil N. C. Wyeth ...

5. ‘King Raven’ Trilogy, a Robin Hood Origin Story, Acquired by ...

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   The books set the tale of Robin Hood in the late 11th century amid the Norman invasion of Wales. Steeped in lore and the political … ‘King Raven’ Trilogy, a Robin Hood Origin Story, Acquired ...

6. Robin Hood and the Monk - Wikipedia

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   Robin Hood and the Monk is generally considered one of the artistically best and most literarily well-crafted of the surviving tales of Robin Hood. [1] Holt wrote that it was a "blood and thunder adventure" that was crisply told, although a "shallow" work as well whose only moral is its paean to loyalty at the end. [ 2 ]

7. Guy of Gisbourne - Wikipedia

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   I am Guy of good Gisborne.’ [4] Guy is a hired killer seeking Robin Hood. They have a shooting contest, and Robin wins with ease. Robin identifies himself (as "Robin Hood of Barnsdale", in South Yorkshire) to the suspicious Guy, and the two fight. When Robin trips, Guy stabs him, but (after a brief prayer to Mary) Robin kills him with his sword.

8. A Gest of Robyn Hode - Wikipedia

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   A Gest of Robyn Hode (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. Written in late Middle English poetic verse, it is an early example of an English language ballad, in which the verses are grouped in quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme, also known as ballad stanzas.

9. Scotichronicon - Wikipedia

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   The chronicle consists of 16 books. The book's composition started in 1440. It was completed in 1447. The last event covered in the chronicle is the death of James I of Scotland in 1437. The chronicle depicts Robin Hood as a historical figure. He is depicted as one of the rebels in the Second Barons' War (1264-1267).