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 Butcher in the Robin Hood legend and the early "Potter" ballad are still popular Robin Hood stories that are retold in many children's books. Elements of this ballad also appeared in the 1955 TV series "The Adventures of Robin Hood" episode "A Guest for the Gallows" where Robin adopts the butcher's identity to rescue Will Stutely. Robin Hood and the Butcher Robin Hood and the Butcher is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part