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arnisador
03-14-2009, 09:34 PM
Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_robin_hood)


But Luxford, an art history lecturer at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, says a 23-word inscription in the margins of a history book, written in Latin by a medieval monk around 1460, casts the outlaw as a persistent thief.

"Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies," the note read when translated into English, Luxford said.

Say it ain't so!

tellner
03-14-2009, 09:42 PM
Hard to say. If he were a hardcore Loyalist to the Crown he'd probably see it that way. Consider Robin's major contribution to history - being part of the group of nobles who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta.

Brian R. VanCise
03-15-2009, 09:34 AM
I imagine it was this way. I would not overly romanticize Robin Hood or his contributions to history.

eskrimakaliarnis.com
03-15-2009, 10:25 AM
I just can't understand why Kevin Costner fired his voice coach halfway through the movie LOL!

Shaun
03-16-2009, 06:00 AM
Details about Robin Hood vary,location,motives,etc.

I like to believe in the idealized Robin Hood,the one that stole from the rich and gave to the poor. The people's champion,that used his skills to make the world a better place.

We could do with more modern day Robin Hoods.Long may his legend live.