David of Doncaster dark hair long since Royal Foresters cut off his ears. 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
Estonian folklore Estonian folklore. A leading figure in the society Friedrich Robert Faehlmann published a number of Estonian legends and myths in German based on genuine Estonian folklore and on Ganander's Finnish mythology, "The Dawn and Dusk" ("Koit ja Hämarik" ) being considered one of the most beautiful Estonian myths having popular origin. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald started collecting Estonian folklore in 1843 but ended up changing the tales considerably. The materials collected primarily from Virumaa were reworked and published as The Old tales of the Estonian People in 1866 In 1842 The Society of the Estonian Literati was founded in Tallinn. Alexander