Lancashire
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | 53.732212, -2.624788 |
| Adm. div. | Lancashire |
| Vicinity | W of Yorkshrie and Westmorland; S of Cumberland and Westmorland; N of Cheshire |
| Type | Area |
| Interest | Literary locale |
| Status | Extant |
| First Record | c. 1500 |
A somewhat central point in Lancashire.
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, 2021-01-07.
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 in st. 357 (see Quotations below).
Quotations
[Gest of Robyn Hode:]
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
Also see
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.