Linguistics

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-24.

Essential studies

• Ikegami, Masa. 'The Language and the Date of "A Gest of Robyn Hode"', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, vol. 96 (1995), pp. 271-81.
• Matheson, Lister M. 'The dialects and Language of Selected Robin Hood Poems', appendix to: Ohlgren, Thomas. Robin Hood: the Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology (Newark, ©2007), pp. 189-210.

Useful

• Nielsen, Henrik Thiil. ''Coresed' and 'Frese': Two Cruces in A Gest of Robyn Hode', Notes & Queries, vol. 66 (2019), pp. 366-70.

IRHB notes on linguistic topics

• From Beornsdale to Barnsdale
• Wood for Hood

Also see

• Sheriffs of Nottingham: A note on terminology.

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