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  2. Robyn and Gandeleyn - Wikipedia

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    The ballad has attracted interest from scholars of Robin Hood due to the similarity of Robyn's name and the involvement of both precise archery and a dangerous forest as motifs. Despite this similarity, Child and other scholars generally believe that the ballad is not directly connected to Robin Hood's legend.

  3. Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale - Wikipedia

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    Robin Hood one day sees a cheerful young man dressed in red, singing and playing in the greenwood: it is Allan-a-Dale.The next day, he sees him again, dejected. He sends two of his Merry Men, Little John and Much the Miller's Son, to apprehend him.

  4. Joseph Ritson - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Ritson (2 October 1752 – 23 September 1803) was an English antiquary known for editing the first scholarly collection of Robin Hood ballads (1795). After a visit to France in 1791, [1] he became a staunch supporter of the ideals of the French Revolution. [2] [3] He was also an influential vegetarianism activist. [4]

  5. Category:Robin Hood ballads - Wikipedia

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    Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale; Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne; Robin Hood and Little John; Robin Hood and Maid Marian; Robin Hood and Queen Katherine; Robin Hood and the Beggar; Robin Hood and the Bishop; Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford; Robin Hood and the Butcher; Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar; Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow; Robin Hood ...

  6. Robin Hood - Wikipedia

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    In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Robin Hood ballads were mostly sold in "Garlands" of 16 to 24 Robin Hood ballads; these were crudely printed chap books aimed at the poor. The garlands added nothing to the substance of the legend but ensured that it continued after the decline of the single broadside ballad. [68]

  7. Robin Hood and the Beggar - Wikipedia

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    "Robin Hood and the Beggar" is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is a pair out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads.

  8. A Gest of Robyn Hode - Wikipedia

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    In 1968, D. C. Fowler proposed a new reconstruction of the history of the narrative ballad, based upon his study of Gest, and the oldest Robin Hood ballads (Robin Hood and the Monk, and Robin Hood and the Potter). His proposal was that the narrative ballad is a subcategory of folksong that uses a narrative form. The narrative ballad, as it ...

  9. Robin Hood and the Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    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, and is one (#135) out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads.