[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.