Book description
Few of the romantic figures of legend and tradition, whose names are conspicuous by their absence in the more sober pages of history, give greater scope to the writer of adventurous fiction than that of Robin Hood. That he lived, and must have lived, we cannot doubt, since his name remains to this day in some score of places scattered about the counties of Nottingham, Yorkshire and Derby – in other words, throughout and beyond all area across which in the Middle Ages Sherwood Forest extended.
Mr. A. L. Haydon, in the exceedingly interesting introduction to his Book of Robin Hood, favours what evidence there is to the effect that the famous outlaw lived at the time of King Edward the Second – and that despite the testimony of the Kirklees epitaph, which dates his death in the middle of the reign of Henry the Third.
