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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by … Thailand Robin Hood place-names in Thailand. Bangkok943 bytes (114 words) - 15:05, 17 June 2022
- Calais. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-04. Revised by … A ship named the 'Litell John' hailed from the Pale of Calais in 1447. See Record below. Calais was English from 1347 to 1558. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: Calais ⁃ Wikipedia: Pale of Calais. Also see ⁃ Ship names. Notes2 KB (278 words) - 12:39, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-22. Revised by … More than fifty editions/printings of chap-books of Robin Hood ballads are known. They often carry the title 'Robin Hood's Garland'. In case of items with other titles, one often cannot tell from the title and other bibliographical data whether it is a chapbook ballad collection or a prose-chapbook. Such doubtful items are listed separately under the heading "Ballads or prose". The first known Robin Hood's Garland dates from 1663, but this probably was not the first printing. The latest garlands, under other titles, would seem to date from the very late 19th or early 20th century, but again this is hard to determine as the titles tend not to reveal whether the contents are verse or prose. I have only inspected a handful of garlands. ⁃ Anonymous 1810a. Is this 24 page item a reduced version of Robin Hood's Garland or a prose chap-book? ⁃ M, S 1777a. ⁃⁃ M, S 1808a. Ballads1 KB (186 words) - 06:56, 17 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names in Europe outside the British Isles, listed by country. Cyprus Finland France Germany Netherlands Turkey2 KB (264 words) - 11:21, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-04-22. Revised by … The list includes gazetteers, lists, and monographs on Robin Hood place-names. These all focus on English place-names. Sources dealing only with specific counties or localities are found under the county/localitiy in question. ⁃ Anonymous 2006a, p. 152 s.n. 'Friar Tuck', 200 s.n. 'Ivanhoe', 232 s.n. 'Little John', 244 s.n. 'Maid Marian', 327-28 s.n. 'Robin Hood'. ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-311: "A Select List of Robin Hood Place-Names", including some 120 English Robin Hood place-names, excluding street names, inn names and field-names. ⁃ Midgley Webpages: Places which carry the name Robin Hood/Little John. Includes some 150 place-names. ⁃ Mitchell, William Reginald 1970a. ⁃⁃ Mitchell, William Reginald 1978a. ⁃ Robin Hood: The Facts and the Fiction - Robin Hood Place Names. Chief source is Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-3112 KB (213 words) - 11:22, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-11-06. Revised by … This page includes a choropleth map of the English counties, detailing the geographical distribution of Robin Hood-related place-names and localities from three different perspectives. The choropleth can also be selected via a button below the map found in the top right corner of all those landing pages in IRHB's place-names section that deal with English place-names. From links in the text below the choropleth it is possible to switch between three modes: Count, Area, and Area/Population. Below is found discussion of these choropleth views, a list of colour codes and a table containing the dataSet on which the views are based. The choropleth A choropleth is something much more widely known than its name: a "thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned in proportion to the measurement of the statistical variable being displayed on the map". Wikipedia: Choropleth map. It thus resembles a heat map, but unlike a heat map …9 KB (1,454 words) - 04:46, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by … Introduction This page lists Robin Hood-related place-names in British areas outside England as well as territories formerly British or English. A list of English counties and shires, including separate entries for London and the three historic ridings of Yorkshire, is found on the place-names main page. Ireland Place-name clusters Jersey Pale of Calais From 1347 to 1558, Calais was an English territory known as the Pale of Calais. Scotland Wales2 KB (309 words) - 11:21, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-02-28. Revised by … This film's premise is that "[f]ollowing the dark days of the Civil War the South faced a new enemy, the carpet-bagger. Using the cloak of politics to make a travesty of the Courts of Justice, they plundered a people beaten but unbowed, still eager to fight, unafraid to die for their vanquished land." Plot Gabby Hayes,.ak.a. the Night Rider is a Robin Hood-like character who stands up against Ambrose Ballard, a carpetbagger who is out to take over all of Purvis County. Harassed by Ballard and his men, the locals meet at night to form a self-defence committee. Ballard's men bust in, searching for the Night Rider. They get a tip that the Night Rider has gone to the mountains. At an inn in the mountains the captain of Ballard's men finds a man named Lance Corbin playing the banjo and singing, while the owner of the inn, Sam Starr, is having a bath. Corbin claims he has seen the Night Rider riding towards town. After a fruitless …9 KB (1,301 words) - 06:44, 17 May 2022
- This is among the earliest children's books to consist of prose renderings of the ballads arranged to form a 'life' of Robin Hood. The author includes an introduction in which he touches on his motivation for writing the book. This should be of wider interest: The volume of ballads termed "Robin Hood's Garland" has been hiterto nearly the only work from which the public of the present day has derived its acquaintance ith the character now under discussion, and these it is well known from their obsolete phraseology and antiquated style are not adapted to the taste of the reading community, with whom even good poetry, to use a term in general use, is below par. [p. ii:] What has been long wanted, as a substitute for the Garland, is the matter it contains re-modelled, amplified, and embellished, so as to give life and reality to the characters represented: and that in such a manner as neither to be too extended, and therfore voluminous and expensive; nor too much abridged, …3 KB (370 words) - 21:50, 23 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-31. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Surrey as follows: Shropshire is a large county; the largest of the shires without a coastline. It remains rural except in one intense district of industrialisation and urbanization at Telford and Ironbridge. The River Severn shapes much of Shropshire. It passes through the middle of the county forming a broad, rich valley and floodplain. The Severn curls around Shrewsbury, the county town like a moat. Shrewsbury is a town built on a hill above the Severn with a mediæval castle and Tudor streets. It was King Charles I's capital for a while too. Further downstream the Seven enters the Severn Gorge where it is bridged by the famous Iron Bridge, a symbol of the Industrial Revolution which took root here. The town of Ironbridge which grew up from the works around the bridge, is no longer at the cutting edge of industrial advances; it is a heritage centre. Immediately …4 KB (650 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … The list includes sources discussing Robin Hood place-names in general or in specific (historical) English counties. Sources dealing only with specific localities are found under the localities in question. All items on the list focus on England; there has been very little discussion or analysis of non-English Robin Hood place-names. Essential ⁃ Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. III, pp. 46-47. ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 18-24: Excellent discussion of the topographical background of the Gest and the early ballads. Significant ⁃ Bradbury, Jim 2010a, pp. 176-79. ⁃ Evans, Michael R 2005a ⁃ Rotherham, Ian D 2013a. Useful ⁃ W, F 1848a. Largely concerned with Robin Hood-related localities, this review reproduces 12 of the cuts from Gutch's work, seven of which depict such localities (not necessarily very faithfully). The quality of the reproductions is better than is often …2 KB (357 words) - 11:22, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by … Canada Robin Hood place-names in Canada listed by province. Alberta British Columbia Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario USA Robin Hood place-names in the USA listed by state. California Florida Florida place-name clusters Georgia Iowa Maine Maine place-name clusters Maryland MassachuSetts New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Carolina place-name clusters Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Washington7 KB (859 words) - 11:21, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Worcestershire as follows: Worcestershire is a mixture of the very rural and the very urban. It is low-lying; much of it lies in the Severn Valley, between Shropshire and Gloucestershire. To the east is Warwickshire and to the west Herefordshire. The boundaries of Worcestershire are remarkably ragged, with many detached parts, all thought to originate from the scattered holdings of the Bishops of Worcester. In the centre of the shire is the cathedral city of Worcester. Worcester sits on the River Severn. It retains charming streets around the cathedral. In the southeast is the pleasant Vale of Evesham, presided over by Evesham, popular with visitors. In the southwest are the pretty Malvern Hills, a gentle Set of hills in Worcestershire before the rigours of the Herefordshire peaks. Great Malvern is a lovely spa town. The northwest of Worcestershire is a complete …4 KB (475 words) - 05:07, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by … Plot On their way to Nottingham to hear mass Robin Hood and Little John shoot for a wager. John wins, but Robin will not admit defeat. They quarrel, Robin hits John who returns to Sherwood in anger, while Robin proceeds alone to mass in Nottingham only to be recognized by a monk who summons the sheriff. After a valiant but hopeless struggle Robin is taken prisoner by the sheriff's posse. By some unknown means – there is a lacuna in the MS here – news of this is brought to the outlaws in Sherwood. Little John and Much intercept and kill the treacherous monk and his page who were on their way to the king in London bearing news from the sheriff of the capture of the outlaw. John and Much bring the letter to the king who gives them a reward and sends them back to the sheriff with notice that Robin is to be sent to him. Back in Nottingham, John and Much sleep over at the sheriff's after much dining and wining, but in …3 KB (434 words) - 05:21, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Lincolnshire as follows: Lincolnshire is a large county; in England the biggest after Yorkshire. It is divided into the three parts; Holland (the southwest), Kesteven (the southeast) and Lindsey (the north). The county lies along the North Sea coast and extends from the Humber estuary in the north to Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire in the south. The North Sea coast runs into the sea with long tidal mudflats and sandy beaches for its whole length, so that the tide may run out a mile from where the map shows. The southern end of the county's coast is part of the Wash. Lincolnshire is mainly flat with a great deal of drained fenland particularly in the south of the county. There is one remarkable range of hills; the Lincoln Edge, a narrow ridge which runs in a straight line almost due north for some forty miles, through Lincoln and on, though "the Heights" as it is …4 KB (577 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-02. Revised by … The ballad to which Child gave the title Erlinton exists in three versions, one of which, the C version, features Robin Hood. It is almost certainly a literary forgery. Plot Robin Hood meets a fair damsel, a tanner's daughter; they become lovers (straightaway), but soon the girl's two brothers come riding to fetch her home. A sword fight ensues in which Robin kills the elder brother but spares the younger at the girl's entreaty. The two lovers then elope to the forest. The forged C version Child reprints the C version, known as Robin Hood and the Tanner's Daughter, from the edition in 'Gutch's Robin Hood, [which was printed] from a manuscript of Mr Payne Collier, supposed to have been written about 1650'. Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. I, p. 106. As John Payne Collier had been exposed as a literary forger already in the mid-19th century, Collier's sad career is sufficiently well known to require only a reference to: …7 KB (1,107 words) - 16:19, 10 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-24. Revised by … This 1991 Warner Bros film staring Kevin Costner was the once-in-a-generation Robin Hood film of its time, a classic even if it did not quite reach the level of popularity of the 1922 film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or the 1938 film starring Erroll Flynn, but fewer films have done so in the post World War II period, for with so many new films constantly appearing, any one film is less likely to grab the attention of the daily media and keep it for more than a few days or perhaps weeks. Plot During the Third Crusade, Robin of Locksley escapes from prison in Jerusalem, promising his comrade Peter, who is killed during the escape, to protect his sister Marian. Robin returns to England with Azeem, a Moor whose life he has saved and who has sworn to repay his debt of gratitude. Robin returns to England to find that, in king Richard's absence, the country is ruled by the evil sheriff of Nottingham, his cousin Guy of Gisborne, …7 KB (1,152 words) - 06:44, 17 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-20. Revised by … Robin Hood's accepting the Virgin Mary as surety or "borrow" for a loan in the first fytte of A Gest of Robyn Hode See sts. 65-66. is inspired by a miracle tale that was quite well known during the later Middle Ages. Most often in such tales – called "miracles" – the divine surety is the Virgin Mary, but tales are also found in which God, Jesus, a saint or even a cross acts as guarantor. In these tales, the divine surety pays the debt when the human debtor is unable to. There is a related type of tale, a humorous variant, in which the creditor recovers his outlay from a monk or priest in his capacity as human representative of the divine surety. Such analogues are discussed briefly by Child Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. III, pp. 51-52, 53-54. and at length by Clawson. Clawson, William Hall 1909a, pp. 25-42. Miracles with the Virgin as guarantor are known in Latin (several MSS of the 13th century), French, …5 KB (866 words) - 02:08, 1 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-03. Revised by … The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood belongs to the large group of mostly late ballads in which the outlaw and/or members of his band accost a stalwart stranger, who usually represents some trade, and engage in a fight with him. In this case the stranger turns out to be a cousin of Robin Hood's named Gamble Gold. As Child notes, this ballad is essentially a traditional version of Robin Hood Newly Revived Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. III, p. 154. and therefore, like it, preserves a distant echo of the tale of Gamelyn. Plot A pedlar with a pack on his back is accosted by Robin Hood and Little John. The latter asks him what he is carrying. The pedlar says his pack is full of suits of green silk and silken bow-strings. Little John wants half of it. The pedlar says he can have it all if he can make him yield an inch. Little John pulls out his sword, and the two fight. Taunting them, Robin says he could find a smaller man who could …7 KB (1,082 words) - 01:39, 1 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-10-21. Revised by … The 1952 British film Miss Robin Hood has more Robin Hood-connections than just its title. One of its main characters writes an eponymous serial in a magazine named The Teenager, while one of his most avid fans is an elderly lady who runs an unofficial orphanage/thievery school, financed by activities of the sort depicted in the serial. When called upon, her wards turn out in force, armed with golf clubs, tennis rackets, billiard cues etc. On occasion she wears the kind of hat that is now universally recognized as a Robin Hood hat. Plot Henry Wrigley is asleep, dreaming about a woman and two girls – his daughters perhaps – burgling a stockbrokers, where they open a safe with a welder, intending to spend the loot on helping orphans, feeding pigeons and constructing playgrounds. In waking life he is the writer of "Miss Robin Hood", a serial published in a widely read magazine titled The Teenager. Wrigley is …17 KB (2,662 words) - 06:44, 17 May 2022