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__NOTOC__<div class="no-img"><p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-16. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
The exact meaning of the expression ''Robin Hood could bear any wind but a thaw wind'', with variations such as "stand" for "bear", "anything" for "any wind", is uncertain, but I think it is testimony to the reality of the experience of wind chill.<ref>See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill Wikipedia: Wind chill.] I know from experience that winter typically feels colder in windswept, open Denmark than in sheltered but colder areas of southern Norway.</ref> Uttering this expression would thus amount to an (implicit) assertion that a windy day with temperatures above feezing point can feel colder than a calm day with temperatures below 0C&deg;.

== Collections and lists ==
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 290.
* {{:Hermentrude 1865a}}, lists 25 proverbs, including "Robin Hood could bear any wind but a thaw wind".<ref>Hermentrude cites an 1864 Lancashire dialect text, reprinted in {{:Ormerod, Oliver 1901a}}, pp. 105-238, as his source of the majority of the proverbs. I have not found the Robin Hood proverb in Ormerod.</ref>

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== Discussion ==
* {{:Bowes, Arthur 1922a}}
* {{:D, M 1873a}}
* {{:Fishwick, Henry 1873a}}
* {{:Holland, Robert 1873a}}
* {{:Self-Weeks, William 1922a}}.

== Brief mention ==
* {{:Gilchrist, Robert Murray 1913a}}, p. 24.
* {{:Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a}}, p. 203, cites a few Robin Hood proverbs, including this 'As I shiver whilst writing these lines, I remember the force of the Brighouse saying, "Robin Hood feared nought but a thaw wind."'

== Background ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill Wikipedia: Wind chill.]
== Notes ==
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