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__NOTOC__<div class="no-img"><p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-08. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
The legal maxim "Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood", with variants such as "Barndale", "Barnwood", "Sherwood", "greenwood", "Greendale", occurs in a number of case summaries from 1429 to the late 17th century. It does not seem that anybody has made a serious attempt to establish the exact meaning of this expression. In view of (then) prevailing attitudes to tales of Robin Hood, could its signification be as unspecific as 'tush', 'nonsense' or 'rubbish' followed by an exclamation mark? The earliest known (snatch of a) poem to contain a line similar to this legal maxim is found in an MS of the first quarter of the fifteenth century (see Citations below). In addition to examples from year books and other summaries of legal cases, the citations include literary allusions and poetry fragments that include the phrase "Robin Hood in Barnsdale (Sherwood etc.) stood.

=== Collection and lists ===
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 288-92.

== Quotations ==
{{quote|[''Gest''; ''c.'' 1500:]<br/>
<keyword>Robyn stode in Bernesdale</keyword><br/>
And lenyd hym to a tre<ref>''Gest'', st. 3.</ref>}}

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=== Studies and criticism ===
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 3 & n. 5.

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