Episode 136: The Real Robin Hood
The History of English Podcast
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Episode 136: The Real Robinhood. In this episode, we look at the legend of Robinhood and the oldest ballads that survive to tell the story of the famous outlaw. Those ballads were written down in the mid-1400s, but Robinhood was already a well-known figure by then. We'll also look at the language of the poems, which includes evidence pointing to the early stages of the Great Fowl Shift.
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