Reading Notes: Robin Hood Part B

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Robin Hood and Maid Marian - Robin and Marian meet and fall for each other, sharing sweet kisses. Robin then has to go back to the forrest, and Marian was sad. She went into the forrest with a bow of her own to find him. When they encounter each other, she is dressed strangely and he is in disguise, so they draw their swords to fight, not recognizing each other. She cuts his face, and then he finally speaks. When she hears his voice recognizes that it's Robin, and she kisses him. Little John kills a deer and the merry men throw them a banquet. 

Robin Hood’s Death - When Robin is ill and decides he is near death, he asks Little John to take him to his cousin who will bleed him, so that he can die. So he takes him to the cousin who agrees to bleed him. She cuts his vein and locks him in a room. He bled until the next day, then, too weak to move, he blew on his bugle. Little John heard it and feared that Robin must be close to death. He went back for him and broke the locks to get to him. Robin tells him to take him outside and put his bow in his hand. He shoots an arrow and asks to be buried wherever it lands.


The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child.