1438 - Vessel Robyne Hude at Aberdeen

Record
Date	1438
Topic	Ship called Robin Hood ('Robyne hude', 'ly Robert hude') at Aberdeen.

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Aberdeen.

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Record

[1438:]
[A "ship called 'Robyne hude' or 'ly Robert hude' figures" in a case]^[1]

Source notes

The MS source is Aberdeen Council Register, vol. IV, pp. 133, 134.^[2]

IRHB comments

So far the tally of vessels with Robin Hood-related names suggests that Little John was much more popular among the seafaring segment than the master outlaw. For boats and some ships the element 'Little' may of course had had a special and obvious appropriateness. See Ship names.

Lists

Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

MS sources

Aberdeen Council Register, vol. IV, pp. 133, 134. Not seen but cf. Mill under 'Printed sources' below.

Printed sources

Mill, Anna Jean. Mediæval Plays in Scotland: Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Ph.D. of the University of St. Andrews, July 1924 (St Andrews University Publications, No. XXIV) (Edinburgh and London, 1927), p. 23 n. 1.

Brief mention

Nielsen, Henrik Thiil. The Literary Evidence of the Gest of Robin Hood and the Origins of the Outlaw Tradition (M.A. thesis, University of Copenhagen, 1990), p. 12 n. 2.

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Notes

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[1] Mill, Anna Jean. Mediæval Plays in Scotland: Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Ph.D. of the University of St. Andrews, July 1924 (St Andrews University Publications, No. XXIV) (Edinburgh and London, 1927), p. 23 n. 1.

[2] Mill, Anna Jean. Mediæval Plays in Scotland: Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Ph.D. of the University of St. Andrews, July 1924 (St Andrews University Publications, No. XXIV) (Edinburgh and London, 1927), p. 23 n. 1.

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