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Sir Sidney Lee thinks that " there can be little doubt that the name originally belonged to a mythical forest elf , who filled a large space in English and Scottish folk - lore . Inconclusive attempts have been made to extract from the ...
Sir Sidney Lee thinks that " there can be little doubt that the name originally belonged to a mythical forest elf , who filled a large space in English and Scottish folk - lore . Inconclusive attempts have been made to extract from the ...
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In the latter half of the fourteenth century English legend is enriched by a hero , not like Arthur , a feudal king surrounded by his magnates , but a man of the people , an archer and an outlaw . It is in Langland's Piers Plowman that ...
In the latter half of the fourteenth century English legend is enriched by a hero , not like Arthur , a feudal king surrounded by his magnates , but a man of the people , an archer and an outlaw . It is in Langland's Piers Plowman that ...
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necessarily left the cheapest English ones far behind - excellence of execution being necessarily out of the question . " This letter was not answered , and it seems certain therefore , that the London contractors not only employed ...
necessarily left the cheapest English ones far behind - excellence of execution being necessarily out of the question . " This letter was not answered , and it seems certain therefore , that the London contractors not only employed ...
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