Late 15th cent. - Anonymous - Welsh song

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-28.

Allusion

[MS note appended to Welsh song:]
Robin Hwd ai kant.

[English translation:]
Robin Hood sang it.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
• Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88; see p. 267, dated c. 1500.

Editions

• Roberts, Edward Stanton, transcr.; Lewis, Henry, ed.; Gruffydd, W.J., ed. Peniarth 53 (Adysgrifan o'r Llawysgrifan Cymraeg, vol. 5) (Caerdydd, 1927); see pp. 51-52.

Sources

• Holt, J.C. Robin Hood (London, 1982), p. 108, and see p. 194, n. 8 to ch. V.

Notes

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