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Inconclusive attempts have been made to extract from the ballad history of Robin Hood a sun - myth , with Robin Hood as the central personage by Canon Isaac Taylor , and to treat him as a popular and degraded mani- festation of Woden .
Inconclusive attempts have been made to extract from the ballad history of Robin Hood a sun - myth , with Robin Hood as the central personage by Canon Isaac Taylor , and to treat him as a popular and degraded mani- festation of Woden .
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To this opinion W. J. Thoms replies , " it has been pretended that Hood is only a corruption of ' o ' the wood , ' q.d. of Sherwood , but this as the late editor ( Ritson ) of the poems of which Robin Hood was the subject says , ' is an ...
To this opinion W. J. Thoms replies , " it has been pretended that Hood is only a corruption of ' o ' the wood , ' q.d. of Sherwood , but this as the late editor ( Ritson ) of the poems of which Robin Hood was the subject says , ' is an ...
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But the most famous of the band , next to Robin Hood , was Little John , who on their first encounter gave Robin Such a blow , that it laid him full low , And tumbled him into the brook . The name of Little appears in the Wakefield ...
But the most famous of the band , next to Robin Hood , was Little John , who on their first encounter gave Robin Such a blow , that it laid him full low , And tumbled him into the brook . The name of Little appears in the Wakefield ...
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