Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar earlier version, Robin Hood good-humoredly refuses further combat; in both earlier and later versions Robin invites him to join the band. Howard Pyle used this tale in his "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" as part of the tale of Alan-a-Dale: Robin needed a priest who would perform the wedding ceremony in defiance of authority, and Will Scarlet proposed Friar Tuck. The Percy Folio version of the ballad begins with the stanza: Robert Graves in his "English and Scottish Ballads" used this stanza to support his argument for pagan survivals in the Robin Hood legend, and for the popular survival
The Legend of Robin Hood (board game) The Legend of Robin Hood (board game) The Legend of Robin Hood is a 1979 board game published by Operational Studies Group. "The Legend of Robin Hood" is a game set in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding area, where Robin Hood attempts to recruit a band of loyal leader and with them, to rouse the Merry Men into action, while the Sherriff of Nottingham opposes him. Richard A. Edwards reviewed "The Legend of Robin Hood" in "The Space Gamer" No. 34. Edwards commented that "For a fun, fast, and thoroughly delightful game, the price is certainly a steal. I recommend