David of Doncaster David of Doncaster David of Doncaster is a member of Robin Hood's Merry Men in English folklore. Doncaster is a town near Barnsdale, where early ballads placed Robin Hood. He appears in one ballad in the Child collection, "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow". The sheriff is giving an archery contest, and David, "a brave young man," warns Robin against going, because it is a trap. He reappears in later adaptations, both books and movies. In Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", he appears as one of the youngest in the band, and a wrestler. In "A Gest
Folklore Institute fully established by the 1960s. After the name change to Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the designation Folklore Institute referred to the department's folklore faculty, the folklore graduate students that they supervised, and the folklore studies-specific teaching, research, and outreach projects that the department's folklorists pursued. Many generations of professional folklorists (and some ethnomusicologists) earned their degrees (B.A., M.A., and/or Ph.D.) from the unit when it was known as the Folklore Institute and in informal discourse the name remains synonymous with the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. The present faculty of the Folklore Institute consists of Diane Goldstein, Jason Baird