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The exact meaning of the expression ''<section begin=proverb />Robin Hood could bear any wind but a thaw wind<section end=proverb />'', 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°. | The exact meaning of the expression ''<section begin=proverb />Robin Hood could bear any wind but a thaw wind<section end=proverb />'', 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°. | ||
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* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 290. | * {{: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><!-- | * {{: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><!-- | ||
Revision as of 19:01, 28 July 2018
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-28.
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.[1] 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°.
Collections and lists
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 290.
- Hermentrude. 'Lancashire Proverbs', Notes & Queries, Series 3, vol. VIII (1865), pp. 494-95, lists 25 proverbs, including "Robin Hood could bear any wind but a thaw wind".[2]
Brief mention
- Gilchrist, R. Murray. The Dukeries (London, Glasgow and Bombay, 1913), p. 24.
- Turner, J. Horsfall. The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with Manorial Notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893), 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
Notes
- ↑ See 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.
- ↑ Hermentrude cites an 1864 Lancashire dialect text, reprinted in Ormerod, Oliver; March, Henry Colley. The writings of Oliver Ormerod (Rochdale, 1901), pp. 105-238, as his source of the majority of the proverbs. I have not found the Robin Hood proverb in Ormerod.