Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires

Ballad
Child	140
Title	Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
Versions	4
Variants	11
Stanzas	29
Date	c. 1650

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-03. 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 (Cambridge, 1865), pp. 111-16: "Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons"
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest Old Ballads (New York, 1886), pp. 111-16: "Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons"
  • Allingham, William, ed. The Ballad Book: A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads (Golden Treasury Series) (London; New York, 1898), pp. 111-16: "Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons"
• 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. 177-85
• Graves, Robert, ed. English & Scottish Ballads (London: Melbourne; Toronto, 1957), pp. 91-97; note p. 156: "Robin Hood and the Three Squires"
• 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. 307-308: "Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons"; modernized text.

Translations

German

• Grün, Anastasius, transl. Robin Hood. Ein Balladenkranz nach Altenglischen Volksliedern (Stuttgart, 1864), pp. 135-39: "Robin Hood rettet der Wittwe drei Söhne"; notes, pp. 217-18.
  • Grün, Anastasius, transl.; Frankl, Ludwig August, ed. Anastasius Grüns Gesammelte Werke (Berlin, 1877), pp. 278-82: "Robin Hood rettet der Wittwe drei Söhne".

Brief mention

• MacSweeney, Joseph J. 'Hind Horn', The Modern Language Review, vol. XIV (1919), pp. 210-11; see p. 210: the ballad was influenced by that of Hind Horn (Child 17).