2001 - Rickman, Phil - The Cure of Souls (1)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Allusion | |
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Date | 2001 |
Author | _Rickman, Phil |
Title | The Cure of Souls |
Mentions | Robin Hood's Butts (Canon Pyon, Herefordshire) |
Robin Hood's Butts.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-04-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-04-30.
Allusion
Allan Henry's sitting room had one wall that was all plate glass, perhaps forty feet long. It had wide green views across to one of the conical, wooded humps known as Robin Hood's Butts. Appropriately, according to legend, the Butts had been dumped there by the Devil, making him Hereford's first sporadic developer.[1]
Source notes
The paragraph cited opens chapter 33, "Item".
IRHB comments
The Cure of Souls is one of Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins mysteries, a series of 'spiritual thrillers'. The Allan Henry character is a wealthy developer. There are two Robin Hood's Butts in Canon Pyon. It is not clear to me which of them is meant.
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.
- Outside scope of 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.
Editions
- Rickman, Phil 2002a; see p. 385.
Also see
Notes
- ↑ Rickman, Phil 2002a, p. 385.