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
Robin Hood and the Pirates Robin Hood and the Pirates Robin Hood and the Pirates () is a 1960 Italian adventure film directed by Giorgio Simonelli, and starring Lex Barker and Jackie Lane. Robin Hood, the protagonist, leaves the Sherwood Forest, and is allied with the pirates. After several clashes and many adventures, he gets tired, and decides to return to his homeland, where he discovers that his father was killed, and that is a usurper to the throne. Thus, he begins his old life as fighter who defends the poor against the rich. "Robin Hood and the Pirates" was released in Italy on 24