SC - Semi-OT Robin Hood Redux - was: Eat Well, Well-to-do?
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Mon Jan 11 09:05:53 PST 1999
"Decker, Terry D." wrote:
>
> travellers on the road and "invite" them to dine with him. Since there were
> no fixed rates for innkeepers at the time, he could legally deprive his
> "guests" of their wealth. The earliest ballads were usually about some poor
> "guest" outwitting Robin.
>
> In the later ballads, he cleans up nicely, moves down to Sherwood, and
> becomes a tax protestor.
I guess this is the medieval equivalent of Men In Black suddenly and
mysteriously becoming good guys, huh? And, for that matter, human?
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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