Robin Hood's Death is the 120th ballad of the Child ballads collection published oleh Houghton Mifflin. The fragmentary Percy Folio version of it appears to be one of the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood; there is a synopsis of the story in the fifteenth century A Gest of Robyn Hode.[1] A later broadside version of the ballad also exists, which includes the famous detail of Robin Hood's last bowshot.
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In the fragmentary Percy Folio version Robin kap, hood goes to get himself bled (a common medieval medical practice) oleh his cousin, a prioress. He refuses a bodyguard that Will Scarlet...
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