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 to imagine how Rawandagon, as an Indian headman, came to be identified with the fair's Lord of Misrule—Robin Hood. Not surprisingly, the English also associated the name Robin Hood with deception by trickery, as in the saying: "When...a Purchase you reap, that is wondrous cheap, they Robin-Hood bargains are call'd." Indeed, viewing Rawandagon and his cohorts as credulous fools, the English duped them into signing documents which served as proof that the Indians no longer owned parts of their traditional territories. Typically, they were paid a mere pittance for their land. Consider Rawandagon's first deed, a 1639 contract first identifying