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Revision as of 14:56, 12 July 2018
Approximate location of Little John's Grave, churchyard of Hathersage Church,
Derbyshire.
Derbyshire.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
Allusion
[1845:] Tradition says Little John, the famed gigantic companion of Robin Hood, 'lies buried in the church-yard [of Hathersage Church], with one stone at his head, and another at his feet,' and that his bow was hanging up in the church in 1652.[1]
Source notes
IRHB's brackets.
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
- 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.
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