![]() He is identified as a yeoman - a non-noble, free, small landholder - in his original incarnations. ![]() He is traditionally associated with Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, though an important early ballad locates him in Barnesdale Forest in Yorkshire, and later ones as far afield as Scotland and London a late ballad sets his birthplace as Locksley, a possibly fictional village in south Yorkshire or Notts. The oldest surviving ballads featuring him all date from a century or so later the Child Ballads include an entire book solely of Robin Hood ballads. ![]() Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw first alluded to in William Langland's fourteenth century poem Piers Plowman, though the reference indicates he existed much earlier in oral tradition. ![]()
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