Robin Hood and Allen a Dale

Ballad
Child	138
Title	Robin Hood and Allen a Dale
Versions	1
Variants	3
Stanzas	27
Date	17th cent.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-24.

Editions

Separate

• Rodgers, Joseph. The Scenery of Sherwood Forest with an Account of Some Eminent People once resident there (London, 1908), pp. 53-58: "Robin Hood and Allin a' Dale"; modern spelling and punctuation, no glosses or foot-notes; does not state source of text.
  • Rodgers, Joseph. The Scenery of Sherwood Forest with an Account of Some Eminent People once resident there (New York, 1908). As preceding.

Scholarly and literary collections

• Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 172-75.
• Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, ©1896), pp. 100-105.
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1902), pp. 100-105.
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1906), pp. 100-105.
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1907), pp. 100-105.
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1910), pp. 100-105.
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1914), pp. 100-105.

Translations

German

• Grün, Anastasius, transl. Robin Hood. Ein Balladenkranz nach Altenglischen Volksliedern (Stuttgart, 1864), pp. 146-50: "Robin Hood und Allin vom Thal".
  • Grün, Anastasius, transl.; Frankl, Ludwig August, ed. Anastasius Grüns Gesammelte Werke (Berlin, 1877), pp. 288-292: "Robin Hood und Allin vom Thal".

Related localities

• Papplewick (Hucknall)

Brief mention

• Merriam, Thomas. 'Six-Word Collocations in Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More', Notes & Queries, vol. 56 (2009), pp. 48-51, see p. 50. The six-word collocation "what is your will with me", which is found in this ballad, also occurs in Anthony Munday's John a Kent and John a Cumber, the four anonymous plays Sir Thomas More, Thomas Lord Cromwell, The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange, No-Body and Some-Body, Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and several later plays.

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