Sunday 27 January 2013

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 ROBIN HOOD - THE REAL BRONTE CONNECTION

reading into everything in a darker way, as one becomes more familiar the words full text of the Bronte familysketches tell me 

all I need to confirm that Branwell had the means the motive & time to recover the Remains of Robin Hood, however from that day on we see a yet darker, rapidly plummeting man

BRANWELL'S POETRY. 295 same evening, I found the following, necessarily an impromptu : ' "The man who will not know another, Whose heart can never sympathize, Who loves not comrade, friend, or brother, Unhonoured lives unnoticed dies : His frozen eye, his bloodless heart, Nature, repugnant, bids depart. ' " O, Grundy ! born for nobler aim, Be thine the task to shun such shame ; And henceforth never think that he AVho gives his hand in courtesy To one who kindly feels to him, His gentle birth or name can dim. ' " However mean a man may be, Know man is man as well as thee ; However high thy gentle line, Know he who writes can rank with thine ; And though his frame be worn and dead, Some light still glitters round his head. ' " Yes ! though his tottering limbs seem old, His heart and blood are not yet cold. Ah, Grundy ! shun his evil ways, His restless nights, his troubled days ; But never slight his mind, which flies, Instinct with noble sympathies, Afar from spleen and treachery, To thought, to kindness, and to thee.

 Was there really a Robin Hood ?

Yes, probably more than one, but the Robin who interests me - was born in Wakefield circa 1295.
Was he married to Maid Marion ?
No. Robin Hood was married to Matilda, Marion was invented some time much later.
Did Robin steal from the rich and give to the poor ?
Yes and No. The nearest similarity was mentioned in the ballad of the Comely Knight when a sum was loaned with interest. But he did steal from the rich.
What is the connection with Nottingham ?

Very slight. Little John was at one time a soldier for the Sheriff. Sherwood Forest extended for hundreds of miles, until it was felled to build the Tudor navy. Robin Hood was born, lived and died in Yorkshire. However a number of his guys defected from Nottingham, men such as Will Scaffelocke some say Scarlet, is buried in Blidworth.

Was there a long running feud with Guy of Gisbourne ?

No. Robin killed Guy in a fair fight, decapitated him, put the head on his bow-stave and took a ‘Scottish’ knife [dirk] and brutally disfigured the face beyond recognition, before donning his skins and sounding his horn to let everybody know he had killed Robin Hood – in order to claim the bounty.
Where is Robin Hoods Grave ?

The site at Kirklees is generally recognized as his grave, though his bones were re-buried at Hartshead circa 1600. The sepulchre itself being a fanciful invention of the Armitages in the early Victorian era.

Was Friar Tuck real ?
No. There were no English friars in the fourteenth century.
 

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  1. This blog has been created in the name of "Seán Manchester [and] friends."

    It should be made clear that this is misleading and misrepresents me. I owe absolutely no connection to this blog which is fraudulently impersonating me and falsely attributing material to me and mine.

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