ROBIN HOOD AND MAID MARIAN by H.E. MARSHALL
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The two were inseparable, according to legend, and this is best version I have ever heard. Actually, it combines two versions, one, in prose, from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child (1888) and one in story form from Henriette Elizabeth Marshall (1905). . She based hers upon the prose.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Hello everyone and welcome to 1, one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:35.9 | There have been many stories told about Robin Hood and his band of Mary Men and there have been |
| 0:40.4 | just as many professors of history arguing over whether he really existed |
| 0:45.2 | or not. |
| 0:46.2 | Know ye this. |
| 0:48.2 | Robin Hood not only lived, he still lives in the hearts and minds of those everywhere who believe in the goodness of men and the fight for freedom from tyranny. |
| 0:57.0 | Robin Hood had but one love in his life and this story tells of the day he met her. The story is |
| 1:04.1 | originally told in prose also called Garland, the original text offered here |
| 1:09.6 | within the story. From the English and Scottish popular ballads by Francis James Child, 1888. |
| 1:20.0 | A Bonnie Fine Maid of Noble Degree, made Marion, called by name, did live in the north of excellent |
| 1:27.5 | worth, for she was a gallant dame, for favor and face and beauty most rare, Queen Helen, she did excel. |
| 1:37.8 | For Marion then was praised of all men that did in the country dwell. |
| 1:46.0 | T'was neither Rosamond nor Jane Shore, whose beauty was clear and bright, |
| 1:49.0 | that could surpass this country last, |
| 1:51.0 | beloved of Lord and Knight. |
| 1:55.4 | The Earl of Huntington, nobly born that came of noble blood, |
| 2:00.3 | to Marion went, with a good intent, by the name of Robin Hood. |
| 2:09.0 | Long before Robin Hood came to live in Sherwood, a forest that he, as the Earl of Huntington, would go to to hunt. |
| 2:16.5 | For there was an abundance of wild animals in that forest. |
| 2:19.7 | It was there that he sharpened his skills with bow and arrow and became an expert marksman. |
| 2:24.8 | It was called the royal forest because the king claimed sovereignty over all the men and animals |
| 2:29.4 | there, and although men could hunt there, they could not hunt or kill deer or wild boar. |
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