Reading Notes: Robin Hood Part A
Bibliography:
Ballads of Robin Hood by Francis James Child in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898)
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/robin-hood-progress-to-nottingham.html
-It is important to note that the old ballads of Robin Hood differs from the idealized view of Robin Hood that we remember as children.
-This story is told in quartets, four short sentences or lines per paragraph. It feels as if I am reading old poems which I practically am.
-The story is also told in rhymes, the second and fourth line of each paragraph rhymes with the last word.
-Even if it is told in rhymes, the details of each action is well described, especially when Robin Hood is fighting against the forresters.
-Robin Hood absolutely destroys the forresters, even making some lose arms or legs and enough blood to bleed out and die.
-I am very intrigued the way this story is written, it is fun to just read the words out loud.
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