ROBIN HOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 85, 11 April 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

ROBIN HOOD.

There is much doubt whether Robin Hood was a real personage. A writer in "Notes and Queries" inclines to the view that he was a myth, and gives the following grounds for believing so: (1) The name Robin Hood was no patronymic, but a purely descriptive name. (2) It was the name of the ideal personification of a class —the outlaws of former times. (3) Robin's fame had extended throughout England, Scotland, and France, and, so far as can be seen, it seems to have pertained equally to these three countries. On the other hand, Brewer asserts that he was born at Locksley, in Notts, in the reign of Henry 11. 1160; that his real name was Fitzootli, and it is commonly said that he was the Earl of Huntingdon, and that he was bled to death at the age of 87 by a relative, the prioress of Kirkley's Nunnery, in Yorkshire, on November 18, 1247. uller m his "Worthies," considers him +w l - al chara cter, but Thierry says rmmi re P resents a class—the livprt in S , Saxon race which perpetual defiance of the Norman oppressors from the time of Hereward. that ' i Seems most Probable hfnSn hlw r S a tradit! °n«' rather renrcsPntll T persona S e ' an <* that he ,SS, . S ; rather - than an indi-