Robin Hood Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and having fought in the Crusades before returning to England to find his lands taken by the Sheriff. In other versions this is not the case and he is instead born into the yeoman class. Traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green, he is said to have robbed from the rich and given to the
Robin Hood and the Shepherd Robin Hood may have been a redemptive figure. The English Broadside Ballad Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara holds six seventeenth-century broadside ballad versions of this tale: two in the Roxburghe ballad collection at the British Library (3.284-5 and 2.392), two in the Pepys collection at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge (2.115 and 2.112), and two in the Crawford collection at the National Library of Scotland (27 and 1162). Robin Hood and the Shepherd Robin Hood and the Shepherd is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late