Robyn and Gandeleyn

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-13. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-17.

Primary sources: literary

Robyn and Gandeleyn (Child 115)

Scholarly and literary editions

• 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. 12-14. Additions and corrections: vol. III, pp. 518-19
• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 255-57
• Graves, Robert, ed. English & Scottish Ballads (London: Melbourne; Toronto, 1957), pp. 31-34; note pp. 149-50.

Studies and criticism

• Chism, Christine. 'Mortal Friends in Robin and Gandelyn and the Medieval Robin Hood Ballads', in: Coote, Lesley, ed.; Johnson, Valerie B., ed. Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces: Media, Performance, and Other New Directions (Outlaws in Literature, History and Culture) (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, 2017), pp. 40-56.
• Harlan-Haughey, Sarah; Coote, Lesley A., ser. ed.; Kaufman, Alexander L., ser. ed. The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature: From Fen to Greenwood / Sarah Harlan-Haughey (Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture, [vol. I]) (London [recte: Abingdon, Oxfordshire] and New York, 2016), pp. 172-77, 188-89.

Brief mention

• Stockton, Edwin L. 'Archery in the Ballads', Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries, vol. 5 (1962), pp. 40-44, see p. 41.