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To: seowulf

The various candidates for the supposedly historical Robin Hood have only tenuous documentation (or non-existent) and lived over a period of two or three centuries. He’s probably a literary invention, which isn’t to say that there were no rural gangs of outlaw robbers operating in medieval England. :’) If there hadn’t been, poof, no Magna Carta. ;’)


70 posted on 03/15/2009 7:01:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
The various candidates for the supposedly historical Robin Hood have only tenuous documentation...

Of course I have no documentation at all for my ancestors who lived in England in the 14th century, but I'm pretty sure they existed. I exist, after all.

Maybe we should be inventing some outlaw gangs of robbers of our own. I have a feeling we might need another Magna Carta soon.

71 posted on 03/15/2009 7:46:15 PM PDT by seowulf (Petraeus, cross the Rubicon.)
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