Mythology
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-28.
This page lists sources that interpret Robin Hood as a mythical (mythological) figure and sources that discuss and/or criticize such views.
Studies and criticism
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 63-64. Important criticism of the mythologists' position.
- Evans, Michael R. 'Robin Hood in the landscape: place-name evidence and mythology', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (Dublin, 2005), pp. 181-87.
- Fitzgerald, David. 'Robin Hood and Robin Crusoe', The Antiquary, vol. XII (1885), pp. 137-43; Robin Hood in the glaring light of solar mythology.
- Kennedy, D.N. 'Who was Robin Hood?', Folklore, vol. 66 (1955), pp. 413-415
- Rodgers, Joseph. The Scenery of Sherwood Forest with an Account of Some Eminent People once resident there (London, 1908), pp. 21-52: 'Robin Hood', among other things discusses mythological interpretations of the Robin Hood character.
- Saxonicus. 'The Name "Robert"', Notes & Queries, Series 1, vol. IV (1851), p. 272; asks how the name Robert and its various diminutives came to be connected with "so much diablerie"; cites examples, including Robin Hood and Robin Goodfellow, hobgoblins etc.
- Wright, Thomas. Essays on Subjects connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages (London, 1846), vol. II, pp. 164-211: 'On the popular cycle of the Robin Hood ballads'.