'Robin Hood's Escape Tunnel Found'

Ananova ^ | 8-16-2002

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks. The list of suspects is interesting and I noticed that Sickert isn't even mentioned.

[Lizavetta]

No, you are wrong. If you remember the original story, Robin was knocking over the Sheriff's shipments of tax revenue. He was stealing taxes from the government and giving it back to the people who earned it.

Don't forget the clerics whose pockets he lightened as well. His targets were corrupt government and corrupt church officials.

Actually, Robin Hood wasn't a real man but a legendary conglomeration of several whose exploits got embellished in the retelling.

[ContentiousObjector]

just watch out on that site, there is some pretty graphic photography without any warning,

[Shooter 2.5]

Thanks. When I saw the interview, I was really impressed with the way the lady was explaining her step by step process. I had forgotten that the Jack investigations are England's "JFK Assassination" moneymaker. I should have guessed of a possible link between the TV interview and the book publishers.

Sort of what's happening with this article about Robin's "tunnel". I noticed that they're so insistant that it's his, that they haven't even established that it does connect to the church. Eight feet under the ground isn't a lot. Chances are the tunnel is collapsed before it reaches the church or part of it's natural and it wanders off in another direction. I would love to find out that it connects to a secret door somewhere in the church.

We had a cave in our backyard that was just below the surface at about 12 feet. From the rock formations inside, my son was the only one to explore it in a lot of years. It connected to the next sink hole a block away from our house.

[the_doc]

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a novel about a fictional guy very much like Robin Hood. It's an outstanding children's novel and not too shabby for adults to read, either. It's called The Black Arrow.

[No.6]

Hmmm ... wonder if that's where we get the term, "hoodlums"?

People who wished to remain anonymous while doing skulky things would pull a hood over their head (like those who use stockings or ski masks in modern day).

So "hoodlum" doesn't come from Robin Hood but they both have the same literary parentage.

[SunkenCiv]

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[AppyPappy]

Marion: Oh Robin
Robin: The Friar is looking mighty good in that cloak. He needs to accessorize more.

[AppyPappy]

Marion: Oh Robin
Robin: The Friar is looking mighty good in that cloak. He needs to accessorize more.

[GOPJ]

I like it - great post.

[Mr. Lucky]

Maybe Robin Hood lived in the 13th century; maybe he lived in the 14th. The tunnel dates from the 12th century.

[Beowulf9]

"Was Robin Hood a Liberal who stole from the rich and redistributed it to the poor? Or was he a Conservative who gave the tax money back to the commonfolk which was rightfully theirs?" The sherriff of Nottingham was the government. So, Robin Hood simply recovered what the government stole from the people... so he was a conservative!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 08/16/2002. Thanks blam. We haven't revisited the mythical figure of Robin Hood in far too long, and this topic is, I think, the oldest one on FR.

• Uncovering Nottingham's hidden medieval sandstone caves [2010]
• Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw [2009]
• The 13th Century manuscript that shows Robin Hood and his Merry Men weren't so popular after all [2009]
• Torture pit where Robin Hood was imprisoned found under Nottingham Galleries of Justice[UK] [2009]
• Robin Hood's Prison? Sheriff's Dungeon Found At Nottingham Gaol [2007]
• Robin Hood was Welsh and never went to Nottingham, claims book [2006]
• A Merry Mess: Yorkshire Claims Robin Hood [2004]

[SunkenCiv]

Tony Robinson, longtime presenter for Time Team, presents this:

Fact or Fiction E04 Robin Hood

The rest of the Robin Hood keyword is kinda fun:

• A Good Story Never Told [2012]
• Robin Hood Was a Tea Partier [2011]
• Robin Hood: A Conservative Hero [2010]
• 'Robin Hood': The Original Tea Partier? [2010]
• Robin Hood the Tea Partier [2010]
• WaPo Film Critic Joins NYT in Finding 'Tea Party Like 1199' Theme in 'Robin Hood' [2010]
• Ridley Scott's Robin Hood ("a love letter to the Tea Party..") [2010]

[nopardons]

There are quite a few very well researched books about the Robin Hood legend written by several different Brit scholars. The strongest arguments re Robin are that he is a combination of about three different people who really lived back then, but their stories got combined, romanticized,and merged with a few bits and pieces of Celtic pagan mythology, over the years.

And when the 19th century rediscovered and glamorized the whole knights/chivalry stuff, they also added onto the Robin Hood legend as well.

[wildbill]

Errol Flynn is the definitive movie Robin Hood. Still watchable after all these years.