Robin Hood and the Potter
| Ballad | |
|---|---|
| Child | 121 |
| Title | Robin Hood and the Potter |
| Versions | 1 |
| Variants | 1 |
| Stanzas | 83 |
| Date | c. 1460-1500 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-27.
Editions
Scholarly collections
- Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 108-15. Additions and corrections: vol. IV, p. 497.
Translations
German
- Grün, Anastasius, transl. Robin Hood. Ein Balladenkranz nach Altenglischen Volksliedern (Stuttgart, 1864), pp. 76-88: "Robin Hood und der Töpfer"; notes, pp. 211-12.
- Grün, Anastasius, transl.; Frankl, Ludwig August, ed. Anastasius Grüns Gesammelte Werke (Berlin, 1877), pp. 225-35: "Robin Hood und der Töpfer".
Studies and criticism
- Ohlgren, Thomas H. 'Merchant adventure in Robin Hood and the Potter', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (Dublin, 2005), pp. 69-78.
- R., E.G. 'Horse-Talk', Notes & Queries, Series 2, vol. IX (1860), p. 18; believes "[h]yet war owte" in st. 28 is "Robin's exclamation to his horses".
Allusions
1587 - Anonymous - Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior
Anderson parson of Stepney, should make roome before him with his two hand staffe, as he did once before the morrice daunce, at a market towne in the edge of Buckingham or Bedford shires, where he bare the Potters part. His two supporters alwayes to leade him by the armes, must be sir Lenard Wright, and sir Tom Blan o Bedford, the one whereof also must carrie his bable, and the other a looking glasse for their Maister, to see whether his catercappe doth euery way reach ouer his eares, and so stand according to his calling. As for Mar-Martin, and Iohn Fregueuile, they alterius vicibus, shall be the groomes of his stoole [...]
[Marginal note to Anderson's name:] This chaplein robbed the poore mens box at Northampton, played the Potters part in the morriee [sic] daunce, and begotte his maide with child in Leicestershire: and these things hee did since he was firste Priest.[1]
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