| Absinthe Goblin |
07.25.2007 07:19 PM |
Nobody never will understand my writing as this is important with Robin Hood is that he comes from France. The declaration of the Littell of McDougal of Hautala of Count that during the time of the King Richard and King John, the Hood of Robin was said to live in the Forest of Sherwood has not any basis. The writers of Littell of McDougal formed it simply. There is not reason to believe that does not import what never was said Hood of Robin during the days of the King Richard and King John, because there is not mention of any Hood of Robin in any contemporary document. The King Richard was dead in 1199, King John in 1216. But also far as we know, the first English reference to the Hood of Robin appeared in 1377, in William Langland's The Vision of William about the Quays the Plowman. Three years later the Scottish columnist John Fordun shouted that, in the ballads, the Hood pleasures of Robin by over all. From which but this Hood of Robin did it have come? Strange to say, it could have emerged from celebrations of first May in France. Well before the English appreciated Hood edges of Robin, French celebrated the first May maybe as a track of the Roman old festival Floralia, that honored the springs goddess and of flowers. By the 1200, French commemorations of first May had become associated with a character named Robin of Wood. This took some historians to speculate this Hood of Robin has originated when practices it to celebrate broadcasting of first May to England, and the Wood of the of name Robin was translated to the English. The Olde English word for wood was whoode or whode and that maybe, by some kind of homophony mistake, was transformed into Hood. The celebrations of first May had become in England the Festivals of Hoods of Robins, in which the Hood of Robin presided as the king and was accompanied of a queen called Marian. This Maid Marion also could have been imported in oral tradition from France. A French drama entitled The Game Robin and Marian had appeared about 1280, and French folklore says of a cares for named Robin and a bergère name of Marian.
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