Nottingham and Robin Hood

Robin Hood. See www.robinhood.ltd.uk/robinhood/legend. He is not glamourously featured in his town, Nottingham, and his woods, Sherwood Forest, also understate the connections now. Your browsing about can be leisurely. See www.localhistories.org/nottingham.

Robin Hood, according to the exhibits, is a generic type of name, like John Doe, used for any unknown petty criminal or other hapless individual arrested for whatever. Robin Hood this, Robin Hood that. You can see the ledgers through the years - could not have been one person. But as anywhere, stories illustrate larger truths, and may well not be true in themselves. Legend, myth. Robin Hood. See ://www.robinhood.info/robinhood/candidates.html

Perhaps the main one was Robin fitz Ooth, Earl of Huntingdon, born 1160, died 1247, Or Sir Robert Foliot, 1110-1165, or Robert Hod, or Robert de Kyme, 1210-1285, Robert Hood of the Wakefield Roles, 1290-1346, or several others not listed at //www.robinhood.info/robinhood/candidates.html. Or a collage. Once a figure is identified, religions or social, the stories collect, and soon have a life of their own.

There is the statue, and there are also in Nottingham underground caves that we did not take the time to see. We enjoyed the interactive museum-story exhibit that told the tales.

Sing it again, at users.ox.ac.uk/~archery/old/hoodf. I couldn't access the music, though, just the words.