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(New page: == Headline text == Child 119. Robin Hood and the Monk From a manuscript in Cambridge University Library c1450. Sole version. Child praises the descriptive elements of the first two stan...)
 
 
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Child 119. Robin Hood and the Monk
 
 
 
From a manuscript in Cambridge University Library c1450. Sole version.
 
From a manuscript in Cambridge University Library c1450. Sole version.
Child praises the descriptive elements of the first two stanzas, but to some of us this is simply evidence of the work of a poet of some merit and also that it is unlikely to have passed through the hands of ordinary people. Child relates it to a story of an earlier outlaw, Fulk Fitz Warine.
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Child praises the descriptive elements of the first two stanzas, but to some of us this is simply evidence of the work of a poet of some merit and also that it is unlikely to have passed through the hands of ordinary people. Child relates it to a story of an earlier outlaw, Fulk Fitz Warine. Bronson has a note on the lack of a tune, but no versions.

Latest revision as of 22:32, 14 January 2009

From a manuscript in Cambridge University Library c1450. Sole version. Child praises the descriptive elements of the first two stanzas, but to some of us this is simply evidence of the work of a poet of some merit and also that it is unlikely to have passed through the hands of ordinary people. Child relates it to a story of an earlier outlaw, Fulk Fitz Warine. Bronson has a note on the lack of a tune, but no versions.