Lancashire
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
A somewhat central point in Lancashire.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Lancaster the county town. The priory and castle, looking south from the Carlisle Bridge / David Medcalfe, 16 July 2005, Creative Commons.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-03-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-03-19.
Lancashire figures as locale in parts of the Gest of Robyn Hode. See especially sts. 53, 126-33, 309-34, 356-60, 431-32. The county name occurs once (st. 357):
All the passe of Lancasshyre
He went both ferre and nere
Tyll he came to Plomton Parke
He faylyd many of his dere.[1]
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Background
Notes
- ↑ Gest of Robyn Hode, st. 357, cited from Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 105; punctuation omitted by IRHB.