Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage

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Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage is Child ballad 149.[1] It recounts his adventures hunting and a romance with Clorinda, the queen of the shepherdess, a heroine who did not prove able to displace Maid Marian as his sweet heart.[2]

[edit] Synopsis

Robin Hood is described as an outlaw, outshooting Adam Bell, Clim of the Clugh, and William a Clowdesle, other famous outlaws of the time. He went with his parents to Gamwel, and Little John amused them there, but Robin Hood set out into Sherwood with him. He met Clorinda, the queen of the shepherdess, also out to hunt a deer. She shot one, impressing him, and he invited her to feast with him. After the meal, he asked her to marry him, and she agreed. On the way, some yeomen tried to steal their deer, but were put to flight. The marriage was celebrated.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage"
  2. ^ Holt, J. C. Robin Hood p 165 (1982) Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27541-6.


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