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British Heroes

Robin Hood

This way

I steal from the rich to give to the poor.

What is a YEOMAN?

What is a ballad?

Robin Hood was the hero in a group of ballads written between the 14th and the 16th centuries. They narrate the story of a yeoman who, outlawed for some unknown reason, became the leader of a gang of bandits who lived in Sherwood forest.

Against rich and corrupted rich

Traditionally dressed in green, with bow and arrow as his weapon, he is the champion of the weak and the friend of the poor, since he steals money from barons and knights, bishops and abbots, and gives it to those who are in need. He is a sincere worshipper of the Virgin,but a vigorous hater of the corrupt clergy.

Sheriffs and Kings

His life is marked by frequent encounters with the Sheriff of Nottingham and by loyalty to King Richard the Lionheart. His death is surrounded by mystery; some versions of the legend have him killed by a nun, who bled him to death.

MAID MARIAM

FRIAR TUCK

huge, strong and hot-tempered, but extremely generousm

Robin’s lovely girlfriend

the chaplain of the gang and has an enormous appetite

LITTLE JOHN

THE MEMBERS OF HIS GANG, THE 'MERRY MEN', LIVE IN THE FOREDT WITH ROBIN AND HELP HIM.

Allies

LYRICS

The Death of Robin Hood

Hermes Nye published a series of old children ballads, among which the one telling the story of when Robin Hood died, betrayed by hIS cousin the prioress, who was supposed to heal him from an arrow wound. Before dying, Robin shoots an arrow, asking his loyal friend Little John to be buried with his bow wherever it would hit the ground.

A ballad by Hermes Nye

https://www.britannica.com/art/ballad

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/it/dizionario/inglese/yeoman