It is unclear when Robin Hood first emerged as a character in folklore. He's also known to be pretty handy with a sword and a quarterstaff. Many of the specific feats of archery associated with this archetype (most famously, Splitting the Arrow in two) are first seen in Robin Hood legends or modern adaptations.
He is the Trope Codifier for much of the Archer Archetype, especially the association with nature and the rebellious personality. The Elizabethans would attribute a title of nobility to Robin as Earl of Huntingdon several modern incarnations make him a knight (or at least a soldier) and treat The Crusades as some sort of medieval Vietnam.Ĭertain early elements of the legend, such as Robin's devotion to the Virgin Mary and his antipathy to the higher clergy, have largely dropped out, to be replaced by his charity to the poor (probably developed from the early statement that he did no harm to poor farmers, yeomen, knights, or squires) and his opposition to tyranny (likely derived from his opposition - entirely natural in an outlaw - to the local Sheriff). He is identified as a yeoman - a non-noble, free, small landholder - in his original incarnations. He is traditionally associated with Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, though an important early ballad locates him in Barnesdale Forest in Yorkshire, and later ones as far afield as Scotland and London a late ballad sets his birthplace as Locksley, a possibly fictional village in south Yorkshire or Notts. The oldest surviving ballads featuring him all date from a century or so later the Child Ballads include an entire book solely of Robin Hood ballads. Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw first alluded to in William Langland's fourteenth century poem Piers Plowman, though the reference indicates he existed much earlier in oral tradition.
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