Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight

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Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight is Child ballad 153.

1 Synopsis
2 Commentary
3 Adaptations
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

The king and nobles meet to consider Robin Hood. They send Sir William with a hundred men. Sir William presents him with his letter and attempts to seize him on the spot. Both Sir William and Robin summoned their men, and they fought. After the battle, Robin took ill. A monk let his blood (a common medical procedure at the time), and he died. His men all fled.

[edit] Commentary

Bleeding was also the means of his death in the earlier Robin Hood's Death, but that, the more common version, had it done by an abbess, his cousin. This version also omits his usual reconciliation with the king.

[edit] Adaptations

Howard Pyle used this ballad's story for much of the conclusion of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, although he kept the older story of the abbess for the actual death.