The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood

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The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood is Child ballad 132, featuring Robin Hood. It is a traditional version of Robin Hood Newly Revived.

[edit] Synopsis

A pedlar meets Robin Hood and Little John and tells them what he has in his pack. Little John demands half of it. They fight. The pedlar winning, Robin laughs and says he has a man who could defeat him. They fight, and the pedlar wins again, and refuses to hold his hand, or tell his name, until they had told them theirs. They do, and he says his name is Gamble Gold, and he is fleeing because he killed a man in his father's lands. Robin identifies him as his mother's sister's son, and they go to the tavern and drink together.

[edit] See also

The bold pedlar may make another appearance in the earlier Robyn and Gandeleyn.

[edit] External links

• The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
• The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood, with historical notes