Robin Hood's Death

Ballad
Child	120
Title	Robin Hood's Death
Versions	2
Variants	3
Stanzas	27
Date	c. 1650

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-07-04.

Editions

Scholarly and literary collections

• Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Golden Treasury Series) (London; New York, 1898), pp. 280-83. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest Old Ballads (New York, 1886), pp. 280-83. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Golden Treasury Series) (London; New York, 1898), pp. 280-83. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
• Armes, William Dallam, ed. Old English Ballads and Folk Songs (New York; London, 1904), pp. 103-105. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Armes, William Dallam, ed. Old English Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics) (New York; London, 1920), pp. 103-105. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
• Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 102-107. Additions and corrections: vol. V, p. 240; vol. V, p. 297
• Graves, Robert, ed. English & Scottish Ballads (London: Melbourne; Toronto, 1957), pp. 118-26; note p. 158. Title: The Death of Robin Hood. Version A, much altered by Graves
• Gummere, Francis Barton, ed. Old English Ballads (Boston; New York; Chicago; London, ©1894), pp. 90-93; notes, pp. 322-23. Version A
  • Gummere, Francis Barton, ed. Old English Ballads (Boston; New York; Chicago; London, [1914]), pp. 90-93; notes, pp. 322-23. Version A
• Hodgart, Matthew, ed. The Faber Book of Ballads (London, © 1965), pp. 94-96, note p. 253.
• Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, ©1896), pp. 119-23. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1902), pp. 119-23. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1906), pp. 119-23. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1907), pp. 119-23. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1910), pp. 119-23. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
  • Mabie, Hamilton W., introd. A Book of Old English Ballads (New York, 1914), pp. 119-23. Title: Robin Hood's Death and Burial
• Neilson, William Allan, ed.; Webster, Kenneth Grant Tremayne, ed. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems (The Chief Poets series) (Boston, New York, Chicago; Cambridge, MA, ©1916), pp. 306-307: "Robin Hood's Death and Burial"; B version, modernized text.

Translations

German

• Grün, Anastasius, transl. Robin Hood. Ein Balladenkranz nach Altenglischen Volksliedern (Stuttgart, 1864), pp. 200-203: "Robin Hoods Tod"; notes, pp. 222-24.
  • Grün, Anastasius, transl.; Frankl, Ludwig August, ed. Anastasius Grüns Gesammelte Werke (Berlin, 1877), pp. 337-340: "Robin Hoods Tod".

Sources and analogues

Outlaw & Hermit

Editions

• Green, Richard Firth, ed. The Hermit and the Outlaw: An Edition, in: Green, Richard Firth, ed.; Mooney, Linne R., ed. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg (Toronto, 2004), pp. 137-66

Studies and criticism

• Green, Richard Firth. 'The hermit and the outlaw: new evidence for Robin Hood's death?', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (Dublin, 2005), pp. 51-59.

Studies and criticism

• Hepworth, David. 'A Grave Tale', in: Phillips, Helen, ed. Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval (Dublin, 2005), pp. 91-112

Brief mention

• Lawrence, William Witherle. Medieval Story and the Beginnings of the Social Ideals of English-Speaking People (New York, 1911), pp. 189-90.
• Stockton, Edwin L. 'Archery in the Ballads', Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries, vol. 5 (1962), pp. 40-44, see p 42.

Also see

• Prioresses of Kirklees