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<onlyinclude><div class="blockquote">Certe Silcestria in agro Hantoniensi non aliud valet atque ''silicium urbem'' (id est, ''urbem è silicibus confla-'' [vol. I, p. 388 n.:] ''tam sive confectam'') etsi ignorasse videantur et Camdenus & Somnerus, uti etiam forsitan Lelandus, cujus eò spectantes observationes penitus interciderunt. Quinimo & in ipsa regione Ciltriensi domos è silicibus non raro conditas conspicias. in quibus exstruendis olim aliquammultos ære alieno oppressos fuisse puto. in quod postquam incidissent, ut tandem, si fieri posset, sese liberarent, à magnatibus nescio quibus versuram fecerunt, quæ adeo perturbavit animos, ut fures evaderent, multaque perpetrarent, reipublicæ Anglorum neutiquam grata. Hinc magnates operam dederunt, ut sylvæ in locis Ciltriensibus ingentes magna ex parte excinderentur, ne ibi lateret vis magna latronum, qui aliâs easdem in latibula convertere solebant. Quid fecerit Leofstanus, S. Albani abbas, in fageis lucis sylvisque succidendis memoriæ prodiderunt multi. Itaque de ea re disserere non aliud esset, quam oleum perdere. Ad rem magis spectat, monere, ex ejusmodi latronibus fuisse <keyword>Robinum</keyword> vel <keyword>Robertum</keyword> illum <keyword>Hoodum</keyword>, de quo tam mira quotidie canit vulgus. Is antequam in partes boreales, exlex jam factus, secessisset, in plagis nostris Ciltriensibus crebro latrocinatus, in earundem locis, ne deprehenderetur, opera dedita delituit. Inde factum, ut nobis peris (animum, pro more ludis exhilarantibus) <keyword>Hoodi</keyword> id genus latibulum (vulgo <keyword>'''Robin Hood's Bower'''</keyword> vocitatum) in dumeto Maydenhithiano (Anglice '''Maydenhead-thicket''') ostenderent ruricolæ quidam, quibuscum verba forte fortuna haberemus. quod quidem dumetum idem est quod Lelandus in Itinerario '''frið''' nuncupabat, quo nomine de dumetis locuti & ipsi etiam usi sunt Anglo-Saxones. Etsi enim <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">frið</span>; ''pacem'' re vera signet, luci tamen quum permulti apud ipsos (quemadmodum & antea apud Britones) tanquam sacri habiti fuerint, mirandum ædepol non est, sylvam majorem haud alio quam <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">friðer</span> nomine (utpote asylum plane) Anglo-Saxonum sententiâ appellandam esse. Atqui dumetum illud Maydenhithianum inter sylvas majores censendum fuisse vel ipse testis est Le- [p. 389 n:] landus. Recte proinde & <keyword>Robinus</keyword>, quem diximus, <keyword>Hoodus</keyword> (utpote <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">frið-bena</span>) in eodem tuto commorandum esse duxit. | <onlyinclude><div class="blockquote">Certe Silcestria in agro Hantoniensi non aliud valet atque ''silicium urbem'' (id est, ''urbem è silicibus confla-'' [vol. I, p. 388 n.:] ''tam sive confectam'') etsi ignorasse videantur et Camdenus & Somnerus, uti etiam forsitan Lelandus, cujus eò spectantes observationes penitus interciderunt. Quinimo & in ipsa regione Ciltriensi domos è silicibus non raro conditas conspicias. in quibus exstruendis olim aliquammultos ære alieno oppressos fuisse puto. in quod postquam incidissent, ut tandem, si fieri posset, sese liberarent, à magnatibus nescio quibus versuram fecerunt, quæ adeo perturbavit animos, ut fures evaderent, multaque perpetrarent, reipublicæ Anglorum neutiquam grata. Hinc magnates operam dederunt, ut sylvæ in locis Ciltriensibus ingentes magna ex parte excinderentur, ne ibi lateret vis magna latronum, qui aliâs easdem in latibula convertere solebant. Quid fecerit Leofstanus, S. Albani abbas, in fageis lucis sylvisque succidendis memoriæ prodiderunt multi. Itaque de ea re disserere non aliud esset, quam oleum perdere. Ad rem magis spectat, monere, ex ejusmodi latronibus fuisse <keyword>Robinum</keyword> vel <keyword>Robertum</keyword> illum <keyword>Hoodum</keyword>, de quo tam mira quotidie canit vulgus. Is antequam in partes boreales, exlex jam factus, secessisset, in plagis nostris Ciltriensibus crebro latrocinatus, in earundem locis, ne deprehenderetur, opera dedita delituit. Inde factum, ut nobis peris (animum, pro more ludis exhilarantibus) <keyword>Hoodi</keyword> id genus latibulum (vulgo <keyword>'''Robin Hood's Bower'''</keyword> vocitatum) in dumeto Maydenhithiano (Anglice '''Maydenhead-thicket''') ostenderent ruricolæ quidam, quibuscum verba forte fortuna haberemus. quod quidem dumetum idem est quod Lelandus in Itinerario '''frið''' nuncupabat, quo nomine de dumetis locuti & ipsi etiam usi sunt Anglo-Saxones. Etsi enim <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">frið</span>; ''pacem'' re vera signet, luci tamen quum permulti apud ipsos (quemadmodum & antea apud Britones) tanquam sacri habiti fuerint, mirandum ædepol non est, sylvam majorem haud alio quam <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">friðer</span> nomine (utpote asylum plane) Anglo-Saxonum sententiâ appellandam esse. Atqui dumetum illud Maydenhithianum inter sylvas majores censendum fuisse vel ipse testis est Le- [p. 389 n:] landus. Recte proinde & <keyword>Robinus</keyword>, quem diximus, <keyword>Hoodus</keyword> (utpote <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">frið-bena</span>) in eodem tuto commorandum esse duxit. |
Revision as of 04:33, 17 May 2020
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-29. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.
Allusion
[Joseph Ritson's translation:]
Source notes
The note in Hearne's edition is in italic type, ordinary type being used for emphasis. IRHB has reversed this. Where Hearne has black-letter, IRHB has bold type. Where Ritson uses the Old English alphabet, IRHB uses small-caps. IRHB's brackets, including ellipses where Ritson silently omits a passage.
IRHB comments
Ritson finds that "[w]hat he means by all this is, doubtless, sufficiently obscure: the mere name, however, of Robin Hoods bower seems a very feeble authority for concluding that gallant outlaw to have robed [sic] or skulked in the Chiltern hundreds".[3] Hearne certainly would not be the last writer to let fond memories of a childhood greenwood influence his speculations on the origins of Robin Hood. As he was born in 1678, we can draw the somewhat conservative conclusion that the name 'Robin Hood's Bower' was already applied to the small earthwork in Maidenhead thicket around 1690. The full names of the antiquarian Hearne refers to are John Leland and William Somner.
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
- Outside scope of 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.
Sources
- [Morins, Richard de]; Hearne, Thomas, ed. Chronicon sive Annales Prioratus de Dunstaple (Oxford, 1733), vol. I, p. 387 n. (contd. vol. I, pp. 388 n-389 n).
- [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. I, p. ci n. † (contd. vol. I, p. cii n.)
Background
- Wikipedia: John Leland (antiquary)
- Wikipedia: Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
- Wikipedia: William Somner.
Discussion
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 295, s.n. Robin Hood's Arbour.
Notes
- ↑ Read: lurked.
- ↑ [Morins, Richard de]; Hearne, Thomas, ed. Chronicon sive Annales Prioratus de Dunstaple (Oxford, 1733), vol. I, p. 387 n. (contd. vol. I, pp. 388 n.-389 n.); [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. I, p. ci n. † (contd. vol. I, p. cii n.)
- ↑ [Ritson, Joseph, ed.] Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now Extant, Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw, to Which are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life (London, 1795), vol. I, p. cii n. Ritson's italics; IRHB's brackets.