Errol Flynn is the Robin Hood ever I have watched the Adventures of Robin Hood dozens of times since a boy and never get tired of watching it’s one of my favourite films of all time
This should be on television more/again. Such good tv. Thanks for doing all the digging up and research, and for making all the video's. Very good work.
Excellent. It's a very complex and mysterious historical problem ( see or hear, for instance, the program devoted to this elusive subject by Lord Bragg in his History in Our Time series ) - this is by far the best and most comprehensive treatment of the topic avaliable.
"Our Robert Hood, who lived somewhere under the number 49 Stop..." Puts things into perspective, doesn't it? Later generations don't care who you were, they'll just plonk a bus stop over your house lol.
We had a computer studies teacher at school whose name was Robin Hood (Mr Hood, to us.) It amused me (at the time,) and perhaps it may have been nominative determinism, but he taught an after school class in........ you guessed it, robbery. No, sorry that's not it, archery, he taught archery.
stelun56, if you're correcting the name of the class I took in 1984-85 far enough, but I should inform you, the title of the lesson I had written on my school curriculum, was Computer studies (with R. Hood.) My comment was a fleeting one, but it was meant to be fun 🙂
Yes, there's most probably dozens of Robin Hoods throughout the ages as there were Johns, Alfreds, Richards and Nigels. But there's only one way to tell the real Robin Hood and he's the one wearing green tights!
There was a British Robin Hood series for children in the early 1970's that was wonderful. The final episode was literally a show stopper, it ended with Robin's poisoning in the nunnery. I would love to know the particulars of that series and if DVDs were available now ?
Well done. With Robin's identity remaining a mystery along with his frailties and vices, the legend will continue to serve to mankind. When thought of as more of an abstraction or ideal than a flesh and blood person, he will maintain super hero of western civilization status like Arthur, Beowulf, and to some extent the more transparent Wallace.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the glen, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, With his band of men, Feared by the bad, Loved by the good, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood. Loved the TV show as a kid. Richard Greene was my favorite Robin Hood.
Technically "Sherwood Forest" more accurately translates "Shirewood Forest" which was simply an area under forest law. It didn't have to refer to a specific forest.
Interesting/informative/entertaining😎 excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Especially the movie cutscenes🎥 class A research project. My favorite Robin Hood impersonator was Errol Flynn 🏹🌲
Fascinating. I also find it interesting and pretty cool how the story has been adopted trough centuries, only seems natural that it should continue to do so. And interesting to hear about real people who even if not the original real Robin Hood seem to have possibly influenced the stories.
The ending I got - the same one you recount , w/Robin Hood being bled to death by an evil nun, and shooting his arrow to where he should be buried - was from my Mum's childhood book. I was weeping, I can tell you! Just wee girl - I have never forgot it. THANKS for new data! Can't hurt to know what MAY be the "truth"........cheers!
Go stand at Bristol City, in the right place you will hear an aggressive foul mouthed little alcoholic scumbag screaming unbelievable abuse. I promise you will never see him the same way again. I could not believe it
God bless the bards. There were centuries without radio or TV. The only entertainment came from the traveling tale tellers and singers. And what happens when a few "professionals" get together for a pint? They share their stories, swapping round verses and choruses, adding in more time relevant details. This goes on for CENTURIES!!!! Eventually some monk or over educated nobleman dips quill in ink... This explains the Norse sagas, the Arthur legends and the Robin Hood stories. There were originally a few kernels of fact in these tales, but those facts have become so over embroidered that we may never find the thread of Truth in them. Which is fine. Because humans love to tell stories.
Yeah You right ppl b4 TV and stuff...had to rely on listening to their Nearest and dearest tho Human Nature as it is...werent always Their Dearest either Hence wars witch Trials of innocent women
Still happens though heavily changed by now haha, love that about it here in Ripon (where I was born and have just moved back to after nearly 20 years) actually is when the riot at St Mary's and the monks moving to form what was then called Fountains Abbey (there's a few others) certainly by 672 yeah....
Born in Yorkshire always know Robin was from Yorkshire he's buried on the Kirklees Priory Grounds. Every time we would pass my Dad would tell me you see that Pub The Three Nuns Robin Hoods buried behind it.
All legends start with a central historical figure around which stories from other historical figures cluster and to which is added the fantasy of the balladeer in nearly all pre-literate societies.
Robin Hood is super popular and well known in New England. In a town next to me in Massachusetts there is a neighborhood full of streets named after Robin Hood's story. There are names like Little John Circle, Friar Tuck Lane Nottingham Rd, Bounty St, Maid Marion St, and Sherwood Drive. I deliver pizza to those roads and as soon as I hear my next delivery is to a street name with an association with Robin Hood I know exactly where I will be going.
I really enjoy all these historical investigations with Tony Robinson. In 2016 we have the continuing Disnification of very old retold tales. My little grandson is shocked to hear any original grisly Grimm version of fairy tales alluded to on Nick Jr. :o ... originality is nothing if not derivative ;) ... part of a process ... and so we civilize ourselves by the ideals we uphold in our heroes ...
I live only 15mls away from Sherwood Forest and The Major Oak, Robin Hoods hiding place. As a child I always loved playing in that forest believing I was Robin Hood and nothing will change my mind that the forest and Nottingham was where he came from in my mind! Im starting to believe Yorkshire has a vendetta against the East Midlands as they claim Hood belongs to them yet no everdence can prove this and they wanted to steal the remains found of King Richard 3rd from underneath a car park in Leicester as they claim he spent alot of his life in Yorkshire. What will Yorkshire try to steal next, the Bakewell Tart or the Melton Mowbery Pork Pie? lol.
imagine going on a mad mission in some woods tripping your nuts off with the crew and come across a medieval survival expert dressed up playing 14th century lol.
Nearly every person back then was an outlaw in their spare time, and there was bound to be a couple of Roberts and Robins knocking about the place. And today we have Hoodies, what a world, what a world.
Jim McNeil. No, being an outlaw was a legal status putting you outside the protection of the law which only applies to men. To be made an outlaw you had to fail to attend court on 3 consequetive times. However, as few poor people had any faith in the protection of the law they would flee the area and became outlaws. You could only have your outlaw status lifted by the court which put it on you, nor you get aid legally from the Church. As an outlaw anyone could maim or kill you without getting into trouble with the law.
I love around 8:00, "jumping on the bandwagon 4 centuries after the event". Gotta love those Brits, in regards to the humor used here. I laughed anyway
Robin Hood = Herne = Cernunnos The 80's ITV show Robin of Sherwood, made great pains to connect Robin of Loxley to Cernunnos. It seems the writer may have known what Tony begins to discover.
There are apparently records of a "Robert Hood" appearing in the court roles of Barnsdale in the time of Edward II and interestingly enough, when Edward II is returning from campaign in Scotland, he deliberately alters his journey to avoid Barnsdale "lest his hostages be taken from him."
I've learned a lot about this. It also reminds me of the old Sierra game Conquest of the Longbow. In the game, they made Matilda the Sheriff's wife... now I know where they got the same. :)
I LOVE Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem. Parts of the bar are cut into the hillside, and some of the graffiti carved into the rock walls is several hundred years old ("Fore ye Goode Tyme, Cal Marion at BR-5"). There's no proof that it's really as old as they claim, but it can't be totally disproven, either. There used to be a rocking disco down (Annabelle's) the street from the castle main gate... but I doubt it's still there...45 years later...
Seen this guy's story in that movie "Men in Tights". Covers almost everything! Those photos though of Robin Hood are remarkable given the technology of the time - who knew?
The old ballads of Robin Hood has changed several times since the 13th century. Robin Hood took the basic shape of the particular generation that was representing him. Although some have said that these ballads could have been a reference to someone specific, there has never been any conclusive evidence that the man himself ever existed at all.
I’m a Robinson. I remember being around 6yrs old, and my much older cousin convinced me that we were related to Robin Hood. He was convincing. He said “we are Robinsons. Robin....sons? Sons of Robin? Duh” lol. Or, something to that effect 😂!
What's even funnier is that the Instrument next to the bow and arrow etched into the grave monument is called a baldrick which was Tony Robinson's character in most of the seasons of the Blackadder. Jason Roggasch thanx for remembering: "I have a cunning plan"
I think maybe it started out as a slang for an outlaw because of a pun on "robin" = robber and hood was a name but also outlaws wore them for anonymity. Then from the slang came stories, maybe based on some of the real events mentioned here. But the name as a slang for an outlaw probably came first.
That's not quite correct, after the Norman conquests a '' Forrest'' was a legal term, and meant an area subject to special Royal laws designed to protect the valuable resources of timber and game within it's boundaries, Records of the ''Sciryuda'' or ''forest of the shire'' are quite accurate, In the 1200's, thought to be the time of Robin Hood, Sherwood covered about 100,000 acres. Read it here www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/sherwood-forest/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
A mixture of many characters, thieves, highway robbers, bandits, outlaws , etc stories of individuals that evolved into being about one mythical outlaw leader called Robin hood.
Robert Hood of Wakefield (ca. 1323) is probably the Robin Hood of the balads, but the original Robin Hood is: Robert Fitz Odo lived in Loxley, Warwickshire (ca. 1200), Robert Hode Yorkshir dales (ca. 1225), or Robert LeFevre aka Robin Hood southern England (ca. 1261).
Roger Godberd matches more intricate details than any other character and was a genuine outlaw ,whereas Wakefield Robin wasn't even technically made an outlaw etc.
I remember reading in my magazine MEDIEVAL WARFARE There was a guerrilla fighter called William of Cassingham. who fought against the French who were allied to the 1st Rebel Barons during the Barons war. This guerrilla leader was a commoner. He was nottied for his powers with a bow and his guerrilla force consisted of mostly archers. They actually burnt the French siege camp around Dover at one time. Some people think that the Robin Hood tales are based on the exploits of William Cassingham. “ A certain youth, William by name, a fighter and a loyalist [to King John] who despised those who were not, gathered a vast number of archers in the forests and waste places [of the Kent and Sussex Weald], all of them men of the region, and all the time they attacked and disrupted the enemy, and as a result of their intense resistance many thousands of Frenchmen were slain. Roger of Wendover, Flores Historiarum, II. 182 (Rolls Series, London, 1887).
Tony Robinson has his facts WRONG. The earliest tales of Robin do NOT mention Barnsdale Forest. The second verse says "Robin stood in Bernesdale, Leaning on a tree, And by him stood Little John, a good yeoman was he". Bernesdale is also spelt elsewhere in the tale as Bernysdale. Historian Jim Lees theorises that this is in fact Byrunsdale (also referred to in historical documents as Brinnesdale), and was about 3 miles North of Nottingham Castle. These days marked on maps as Old Basford. Turning Bernesdale into Barnsdale just because it "sounds like" is lazy translation and dubious historical research. The very earliest tales also give his enemy as SPECIFICALLY the Sheriff of NOTTINGHAM. (Gisborne turns up later as a bounty hunter, but Robin kills him.)
There was no uniform spelling until about the 1700s as far as I know, but the name Wentbridge is the setting for one of the ballads, it's in Barnsdale although Barnsdale wasn't a forrest, a forrest was a legal jurisdiction.
I was looking forward to Tony showing the original source records; the actual ballads and Court Rolls he referenced, etc.. but no , all we got was money spent on dressed up actors and cod digital records... where was the "fact" part?
@@andrewwyatt1784 Agreed. He does a good job on Time Watch, and the excavations. But I think on this his mindset was still on the children's series / farce "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men". A lost opportunity. People need to stop looking for garvestones which include a name like Robin / Robert, and stop looking at Crusades in the 11th / 12th century. Michael Reuel's book "Robin Hood Existed" places him much later and in my opinion gets it right: robin-hood-was-here.blogspot.com/2016/11/robin-hood-existed-book-by-miachael.html
If you're gonna go the mythical route, lets remember that when the Green Man figure a.k.a. Robin Goodfellow was prominent, English retained more of it's Germanic, and Celtic linguistic roots, whereas the later tales have more French linguistic influences. Keeping that in mind, since we're also talking about an archer, remember that there was a blind god called Hǫðr in Norse Mythology that Loki tricked into firing an arrow at Baldur to kill him. Now look in a dictionary for the word, "Hood" and you get: Middle English, from Old English hōd; akin to Old High German huot head covering, huota guard Noun suffix Middle English -hod, from Old English -hād; akin to Old High German -heit state, Goth haidus way, manner. And perhaps you see that from the common Germanic roots, Hǫðr doesn't mean blind, but concealed like an outlaw perhaps. And then of course, one of Odin's well known aliases was Grimnir, which means, "The Hooded One." So, Robin Hood in the mythical sense could have been allegorical for Odin fighting the giants, and giving the gifts he received from them to man, and that's what Robin Hood did; he took things from the higher authorities, and redistributed some of the wealth to others.
@@madgevanness4011 Steve Roud's 'A Dictionary of English Folklore' makes the point that no historical source ascribes any name to the 'Green Man' (a term only coined in 1939). Art historians call them foliate heads. Any connection to Robin Hood is fanciful nonsense.
Having lived in London 45 years ago whence I was a young lad everyweekend me girlfriend and I took trains buses whatever to find historical spots for picknicks.Twas great times and I consumed many a pint in may local houses of spirits.I even sat at a table where the pilgrims knifed into the date they left for the americas.London as a young man was pretty cool when pints only ran about 35p.I guess things have changed but the countryside of England is one of the best places to explore old legends and history.The thing about the country of England is our american ancestry began there and the people I met in the pubs and parks and places were all so kind to young yanks.I listened to many astory of the pilots who kepted England safe during ww1 and 2.God shaved the Queen,lol.Kinda an inside joke,lolol
@@Nmethyltransferase sure, sure, they had cameras in the 13th century, but they couldn't doctor the photos, the dial-up took CENTURIES !! On a merrier note, there was no fake news !!
In Mirfield near Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, there is a priesthood of the Christian church ( where they train priests ) . The place and it's lands are strictly private. In a certain part of the garden is a grave and on the gravestone writes... ' herith lay'th robin hood ' Lol I used to go to three nuns regularly when I lived in Mirfield.
This is definitely the best Robin Hood documentary, I recently went in the woods near Kirklees priory and that place is definitely haunted, I don’t know why but I bet robin is Robert earl of Huntingdon from Wakefield, too many things tie in with the story
A detail that will escape most people is this: He was a robber and he wore hood, his gang of robbers wore hoods to avoid being identified..they were the "robbing hoods". the truth lies in front of your noses too close to be seen! Robin Hood is a poetic empirical description to tag a number of people.."He was a Robbing Hood!" to describe a peasant claiming from a lord what was he believes is his..hence the heroic quality of the idea.
The possibility that all of the cases discovered are accounts stemming from the initial green man is also a good case to reinforce legend through the centuries. Meaning that all of the cases would have been part of the overall legend.
Robin Hood was 6ft 1, dark haired, brown eyed and wore a hood:-). The best retelling of the story is by Kip Carpenter staring Michael Praed, as taken off in Maid Marion by dear Sir Tony! Problem was Mike famoulsy cannot see the end of the nose on his face because his sight is so bad so he probably wasn't much cop with a long bow;-)
No mention of the Major Oak in Edwinstow? The tree has been dated by it’s rings and shown not to be old enough to have been around in Robyn’s time. But the tree is still wrapped up in the legends of the area. (Sherwood forest, Nottinghamshire) The tale being, that Robyn would hide within a hole in the oak tree to escape capture by the sheriffs men. Emerging when the coast was clear.
"Why a spoon, cousin?"
"Because it's dull you twit!! It'll hurt more!"
R.I.P. Alan Rickman.
AR the best movie villain ever ,a sad loss RIP.
No question
.....bring a friend
Tony Robinson driving. Someone get a breathalyser. Guy is a foul- mouthed thug. Go to Bristol City. Watch a few home games. You'll come across him
Errol Flynn is the Robin Hood ever I have watched the Adventures of Robin Hood dozens of times since a boy and never get tired of watching it’s one of my favourite films of all time
Another great show from Tony. Love the legends he is examining!
This should be on television more/again. Such good tv. Thanks for doing all the digging up and research, and for making all the video's. Very good work.
All we really know is that he probably wasn't a fox, and Little John probably wasn't a bear.
Corylus Bluefox that's the best version
Holy crap! Next thing you will tell me is that prince John wasn't a tiger! LMFAO!!!!!!!
And those 2 names have further modern implications that were likley true.
Debatable lol maybe that's why the sheriff can't catch him because he's looking for a man not a fox 😂
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A really really good Robin Hood documentary. Thanks for the upload!
Lovely story, and Tony always does a good job. In this one it doesn't hurt that his last name is ROBINSON.
Excellent. It's a very complex and mysterious historical problem ( see or hear, for instance, the program devoted to this elusive subject by Lord Bragg in his History in Our Time series ) - this is by far the best and most comprehensive treatment of the topic avaliable.
"Our Robert Hood, who lived somewhere under the number 49 Stop..." Puts things into perspective, doesn't it? Later generations don't care who you were, they'll just plonk a bus stop over your house lol.
Could have been worse, a public toilet or so.
Richard III was found under a car park.
So was the HMV dog
OMG that dial up noise. Lol!
+Addy C: how old is this?
End credits say MMI, so 2001.
oh yea, nostalgia hard on right there. I want it as my phone tune.
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I miss the days of waiting 10 minutes to get online.
We had a computer studies teacher at school whose name was Robin Hood (Mr Hood, to us.) It amused me (at the time,) and perhaps it may have been nominative determinism, but he taught an after school class in........ you guessed it, robbery.
No, sorry that's not it, archery, he taught archery.
computing studies
stelun56, if you're correcting the name of the class I took in 1984-85 far enough, but I should inform you, the title of the lesson I had written on my school curriculum, was Computer studies (with R. Hood.) My comment was a fleeting one, but it was meant to be fun 🙂
Yes, there's most probably dozens of Robin Hoods throughout the ages as there were Johns, Alfreds, Richards and Nigels. But there's only one way to tell the real Robin Hood and he's the one wearing green tights!
There was a British Robin Hood series for children in the early 1970's that was wonderful. The final episode was literally a show stopper, it ended with Robin's poisoning in the nunnery. I would love to know the particulars of that series and if DVDs were available now ?
Robin Hood and Baldrick! Now, there's a fucking fact to chew on, mates!
Every great man needs Baldrick at his side!
Well done. With Robin's identity remaining a mystery along with his frailties and vices, the legend will continue to serve to mankind. When thought of as more of an abstraction or ideal than a flesh and blood person, he will maintain super hero of western civilization status like Arthur, Beowulf, and to some extent the more transparent Wallace.
Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
Riding through the glen,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
With his band of men,
Feared by the bad,
Loved by the good,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood.
Loved the TV show as a kid. Richard Greene was my favorite Robin Hood.
Dennis Moore...Dennis Moore.....
@@shaalis sadly, I remember "Rocket Robinhood".....and have caught myself singing the theme song..eeeeeeeeee
My favorite Robin Hood is and always will be Richard Green. I remember that series from the 60s. Long live Robin Hood.
Also, Errol Flynn
"...he steals from the poor,
and he gives to the rich...
stupid bitch-"
Technically "Sherwood Forest" more accurately translates "Shirewood Forest" which was simply an area under forest law. It didn't have to refer to a specific forest.
lol yes it does shrewood forest
Sherwood forest could be a shire wood in any shire. The idea that it was located in Nottingham didn't come into the story until much later.
indeed. what is a sheriff but a shire-reeve. ive encountered sheriffs myself from time to time. none from Sherwood
Interesting/informative/entertaining😎 excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Especially the movie cutscenes🎥 class A research project. My favorite Robin Hood impersonator was Errol Flynn 🏹🌲
Fascinating. I also find it interesting and pretty cool how the story has been adopted trough centuries, only seems natural that it should continue to do so.
And interesting to hear about real people who even if not the original real Robin Hood seem to have possibly influenced the stories.
Yeah
Agree
I love these documentaries. Tony Robinson is great!
The ending I got - the same one you recount , w/Robin Hood being bled to death by an evil nun, and shooting his arrow to where he should be buried - was from my Mum's childhood book. I was weeping, I can tell you! Just wee girl - I have never forgot it. THANKS for new data! Can't hurt to know what MAY be the "truth"........cheers!
Watching Tony act in that little clip made this entire episode! XD
Go stand at Bristol City, in the right place you will hear an aggressive foul mouthed little alcoholic scumbag screaming unbelievable abuse. I promise you will never see him the same way again. I could not believe it
I had to listen to this 3 times at 23:27 when he listed one of the kit as a Baldric. Shades of Blackadder 🤣
God bless the bards. There were centuries without radio or TV. The only entertainment came from the traveling tale tellers and singers. And what happens when a few "professionals" get together for a pint? They share their stories, swapping round verses and choruses, adding in more time relevant details. This goes on for CENTURIES!!!! Eventually some monk or over educated nobleman dips quill in ink... This explains the Norse sagas, the Arthur legends and the Robin Hood stories. There were originally a few kernels of fact in these tales, but those facts have become so over embroidered that we may never find the thread of Truth in them. Which is fine. Because humans love to tell stories.
Yeah
You right
ppl b4 TV and stuff...had to rely on listening to their Nearest and dearest
tho
Human Nature as it is...werent always Their Dearest either
Hence wars witch Trials of innocent women
Excellent.
My question: How are you sure of "a few kernels of truth"? Everything is subject to evidence.
Still happens though heavily changed by now haha, love that about it here in Ripon (where I was born and have just moved back to after nearly 20 years) actually is when the riot at St Mary's and the monks moving to form what was then called Fountains Abbey (there's a few others) certainly by 672 yeah....
Q: Why did Robin Hood steal from the rich?
A: Because the poor didn 't have anything worth stealing!
Well done, you got there in the end.
Philip Fry Did you see the Monty Python skit?
Philip Fry they had wives & daughters, but then Robin wasn’t a Viking or Moor.
poorer people have bigger tellies
Like Fry! Like Fry!
I'll show ye.
Thank u Tony for such a great exploration of literature and history..
One of Tony's finest adventures! I have no doubt he has found Robin, and for that we are indeed grateful.
‘Mad Maggie, the Thatcher’ (pointing to crone thatching a hut) ... the only line I remember from Maid Marian and Her Merry Men 😂
Born in Yorkshire always know Robin was from Yorkshire he's buried on the Kirklees Priory Grounds. Every time we would pass my Dad would tell me you see that Pub The Three Nuns Robin Hoods buried behind it.
ive been there too ,id love to strip Nottingham of the money and make Yorkshire the 50 million the heritage fund gives to Nottingham
Is that pub still there.
He would of never of given to the poor if he was a Yorkshireman! They are so tight fisted they only ever breathe in!
THAT WAS EXCELLENT TONY THANKYOU FOR THE EFFORT AND PLEASE DO SOME MORE SOON
All legends start with a central historical figure around which stories from other historical figures cluster and to which is added the fantasy of the balladeer in nearly all pre-literate societies.
Ouch when i heard that dial-up tone about 2:30 in i felt old AF X-D
haha me to
Strewth it makes me feel even older as the ZX Spectrum and Amastrad CPC computers both sounded like that when loading code from cassettes
I love Tony as a presenter ❤
Robin Hood is super popular and well known in New England. In a town next to me in Massachusetts there is a neighborhood full of streets named after Robin Hood's story. There are names like Little John Circle, Friar Tuck Lane Nottingham Rd, Bounty St, Maid Marion St, and Sherwood Drive. I deliver pizza to those roads and as soon as I hear my next delivery is to a street name with an association with Robin Hood I know exactly where I will be going.
ummm
quite INTERESTING yr comment
You should buy yourself some green tights to work in.
I really enjoy all these historical investigations with Tony Robinson.
In 2016 we have the continuing Disnification of very old retold tales. My little grandson is shocked to hear any original grisly Grimm version of fairy tales alluded to on Nick Jr. :o ... originality is nothing if not derivative ;) ... part of a process ... and so we civilize ourselves by the ideals we uphold in our heroes ...
"I have a cunning plan..."
I live only 15mls away from Sherwood Forest and The Major Oak, Robin Hoods hiding place. As a child I always loved playing in that forest believing I was Robin Hood and nothing will change my mind that the forest and Nottingham was where he came from in my mind! Im starting to believe Yorkshire has a vendetta against the East Midlands as they claim Hood belongs to them yet no everdence can prove this and they wanted to steal the remains found of King Richard 3rd from underneath a car park in Leicester as they claim he spent alot of his life in Yorkshire. What will Yorkshire try to steal next, the Bakewell Tart or the Melton Mowbery Pork Pie? lol.
Robin would of been around in the 1200s the great oak would have been a sapling doesn't fit
imagine going on a mad mission in some woods tripping your nuts off with the crew and come across a medieval survival expert dressed up playing 14th century lol.
Listening to this documentary in 2018 and he is searching "for the earliest versions" whilst his modem is screeching away..
Amazing to hear the late Paul Darrow narrating the story.
I just can't see why this needed to be investigated when there are all these photos of him.
Great upload. One can alwqays count on Tony Robinson to tell a story like this and do it justice. .
Nearly every person back then was an outlaw in their spare time, and there was bound to be a couple of Roberts and Robins knocking about the place. And today we have Hoodies, what a world, what a world.
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear." - Karl Kraus
Darby O'Gill, Robbin' hoodies(?)
Jim McNeil. No, being an outlaw was a legal status putting you outside the protection of the law which only applies to men. To be made an outlaw you had to fail to attend court on 3 consequetive times. However, as few poor people had any faith in the protection of the law they would flee the area and became outlaws. You could only have your outlaw status lifted by the court which put it on you, nor you get aid legally from the Church. As an outlaw anyone could maim or kill you without getting into trouble with the law.
I love around 8:00, "jumping on the bandwagon 4 centuries after the event". Gotta love those Brits, in regards to the humor used here. I laughed anyway
That's humour if you're talking about Brits, eh?
No Name Yet - Yes; the English, they do have a way with English...
Sort of like Christianity. Jumping on the bandwagon three decades after the event.
That version of media player brings back memories.
Robin Hood = Herne = Cernunnos
The 80's ITV show Robin of Sherwood, made great pains to connect Robin of Loxley to Cernunnos. It seems the writer may have known what Tony begins to discover.
There are apparently records of a "Robert Hood" appearing in the court roles of Barnsdale in the time of Edward II and interestingly enough, when Edward II is returning from campaign in Scotland, he deliberately alters his journey to avoid Barnsdale "lest his hostages be taken from him."
The uk is so beautiful . I love the story of Robin Hood.
That gear from that medieval survival expert looked like it came straight from the shop 🤣
I've learned a lot about this. It also reminds me of the old Sierra game Conquest of the Longbow. In the game, they made Matilda the Sheriff's wife... now I know where they got the same. :)
I LOVE Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem. Parts of the bar are cut into the hillside, and some of the graffiti carved into the rock walls is several hundred years old ("Fore ye Goode Tyme, Cal Marion at BR-5"). There's no proof that it's really as old as they claim, but it can't be totally disproven, either. There used to be a rocking disco down (Annabelle's) the street from the castle main gate... but I doubt it's still there...45 years later...
All great stories have a grain of truth somewhere. It is one of Britain's greatest.
This was fantastic! Thanks so much for the great work. We should make the real film. Maid Matilda needs to be corrected.. 😊
I've seen several that claimed he didn't even exist. But the Ballard's being in line with actual people and events is awesome
Seen this guy's story in that movie "Men in Tights". Covers almost everything!
Those photos though of Robin Hood are remarkable given the technology of the time - who knew?
Yes, they had traveling circumcizers (mohels) at the time. Jews were all expelled from England in 1290. "Special today! Half off!"
Mel Brooks :-)
It's probably a fact that the Robin Hood legend is based on fiction
The old ballads of Robin Hood has changed several times since the 13th century. Robin Hood took the basic shape of the particular generation that was representing him. Although some have said that these ballads could have been a reference to someone specific, there has never been any conclusive evidence that the man himself ever existed at all.
just love Tony, when it comes to history, loved Graham Phillips comment killing people u don"t like lol
”I have a cunning plan, my lord....”
I’m a Robinson. I remember being around 6yrs old, and my much older cousin convinced me that we were related to Robin Hood. He was convincing. He said “we are Robinsons. Robin....sons? Sons of Robin? Duh” lol. Or, something to that effect 😂!
Honestly watching this, he's on his fourth 'another one" and I'm like 'STOOOP PLEASE¡'
cant believe it took me so long to realise this was Baldrick
I had to be told...
A good comedic actor who can put on a personable face for documentaries, kinda not surprising.
What's even funnier is that the Instrument next to the bow and arrow etched into the grave monument is called a baldrick which was Tony Robinson's character in most of the seasons of the Blackadder. Jason Roggasch thanx for remembering: "I have a cunning plan"
DaDamuse, no, that's gobaldiduke (I think that's how Baldrick said it.)
@@TheMimiSard A friend of mine met him some years ago (a bit of a fan) and said he is a complete dick.
I think maybe it started out as a slang for an outlaw because of a pun on "robin" = robber and hood was a name but also outlaws wore them for anonymity. Then from the slang came stories, maybe based on some of the real events mentioned here. But the name as a slang for an outlaw probably came first.
We all know he really lived because we've seen his descendant on The last of the Summer wine , because his ancestor was a Bristoe on his mothers side
Mike Loades, the weapons expert and a damn good horseman, is the Sherrif of Nottingham in this.
My first introducion to Robin Hood was Disney's animated version. That's the only version I knew until high school.
man on a mission in those days Sherwood Forest covered much of central England and into Wales
That's not quite correct, after the Norman conquests a '' Forrest'' was a legal term, and meant an area subject to special Royal laws designed to protect the valuable resources of timber and game within it's boundaries,
Records of the ''Sciryuda'' or ''forest of the shire'' are quite accurate, In the 1200's, thought to be the time of Robin Hood, Sherwood covered about 100,000 acres.
Read it here
www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/sherwood-forest/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
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Sadly, What is left of Sherwood Forest is only about 1000 acres. So much for progress.
A mixture of many characters, thieves, highway robbers, bandits, outlaws , etc stories of individuals that evolved into being about one mythical outlaw leader called Robin hood.
Robert Hood of Wakefield (ca. 1323) is probably the Robin Hood of the balads, but the original Robin Hood is: Robert Fitz Odo lived in Loxley, Warwickshire (ca. 1200), Robert Hode Yorkshir dales (ca. 1225), or Robert LeFevre aka Robin Hood southern England (ca. 1261).
Roger Godberd matches more intricate details than any other character and was a genuine outlaw ,whereas Wakefield Robin wasn't even technically made an outlaw etc.
Got my new shovel, who's with me to dig down under Robin's Gravestone to see if He's there...
We at least need a test trench...
I've got a hat and a jcb see you there 😂
Ah, Nottingham; where I did my Ph.D., and drank in Ye Trip to Jerusalem, the oldest pub in England.
I remember reading in my magazine MEDIEVAL WARFARE
There was a guerrilla fighter called William of Cassingham. who fought against the French who were allied to the 1st Rebel Barons during the Barons war. This guerrilla leader was a commoner. He was nottied for his powers with a bow and his guerrilla force consisted of mostly archers. They actually burnt the French siege camp around Dover at one time. Some people think that the Robin Hood tales are based on the exploits of William Cassingham.
“ A certain youth, William by name, a fighter and a loyalist [to King John] who despised those who were not, gathered a vast number of archers in the forests and waste places [of the Kent and Sussex Weald], all of them men of the region, and all the time they attacked and disrupted the enemy, and as a result of their intense resistance many thousands of Frenchmen were slain. Roger of Wendover, Flores Historiarum, II. 182 (Rolls Series, London, 1887).
37:05 "...or Robinson"
Tony Robinson is Robin Hood, thank me later lads.
Tony Robinson has his facts WRONG. The earliest tales of Robin do NOT mention Barnsdale Forest.
The second verse says "Robin stood in Bernesdale, Leaning on a tree, And by him stood Little John, a good yeoman was he". Bernesdale is also spelt elsewhere in the tale as Bernysdale. Historian Jim Lees theorises that this is in fact Byrunsdale (also referred to in historical documents as Brinnesdale), and was about 3 miles North of Nottingham Castle. These days marked on maps as Old Basford. Turning Bernesdale into Barnsdale just because it "sounds like" is lazy translation and dubious historical research.
The very earliest tales also give his enemy as SPECIFICALLY the Sheriff of NOTTINGHAM. (Gisborne turns up later as a bounty hunter, but Robin kills him.)
There was no uniform spelling until about the 1700s as far as I know, but the name Wentbridge is the setting for one of the ballads, it's in Barnsdale although Barnsdale wasn't a forrest, a forrest was a legal jurisdiction.
I was looking forward to Tony showing the original source records; the actual ballads and Court Rolls he referenced, etc.. but no , all we got was money spent on dressed up actors and cod digital records... where was the "fact" part?
@@andrewwyatt1784 Agreed. He does a good job on Time Watch, and the excavations. But I think on this his mindset was still on the children's series / farce "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men". A lost opportunity. People need to stop looking for garvestones which include a name like Robin / Robert, and stop looking at Crusades in the 11th / 12th century. Michael Reuel's book "Robin Hood Existed" places him much later and in my opinion gets it right:
robin-hood-was-here.blogspot.com/2016/11/robin-hood-existed-book-by-miachael.html
The rotten and sleaze by the powers of the people that rule the land has not changed !!!😔😔 Great documentary many thanks 👍👍
"Lythe and listin, gentilmen, That be of frebore blode, I shale you tel of a gode yeman, His name was Roben Hode."
Who who whoms poetry tis that ...? I note the horse ...listen my children an you shall hear , bout the midnight ride I Paul revier!
1Klooch A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode ,I haven’t thought about that ballad on years.
That's "...midnight ride of Paul Revere." And there's a good bit of legend in that and it's only from 1775. "One if by land, two if by sea."
come, come, only so many poetry meters.
Good action tale to tell ‘round the fire.
Kidnapping a guest to eat a meal that creates an obligation: sounds like an iteration of "accepting food or drink from the fae."
He was not the messiah, just a naughty boy !
Tony Robinson is a great popular historian. Good show.
If you're gonna go the mythical route, lets remember that when the Green Man figure a.k.a. Robin Goodfellow was prominent, English retained more of it's Germanic, and Celtic linguistic roots, whereas the later tales have more French linguistic influences. Keeping that in mind, since we're also talking about an archer, remember that there was a blind god called Hǫðr in Norse Mythology that Loki tricked into firing an arrow at Baldur to kill him. Now look in a dictionary for the word, "Hood" and you get: Middle English, from Old English hōd; akin to Old High German huot head covering, huota guard Noun suffix
Middle English -hod, from Old English -hād; akin to Old High German -heit state, Goth haidus way, manner. And perhaps you see that from the common Germanic roots, Hǫðr doesn't mean blind, but concealed like an outlaw perhaps. And then of course, one of Odin's well known aliases was Grimnir, which means, "The Hooded One." So, Robin Hood in the mythical sense could have been allegorical for Odin fighting the giants, and giving the gifts he received from them to man, and that's what Robin Hood did; he took things from the higher authorities, and redistributed some of the wealth to others.
And let's not forget that the Puck of Shakespear's Midsummer Night's Dream is another name for Robin Goodfellow.
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Steve Roud's 'A Dictionary of English Folklore' makes the point that no historical source ascribes any name to the 'Green Man' (a term only coined in 1939).
Art historians call them foliate heads.
Any connection to Robin Hood is fanciful nonsense.
Having lived in London 45 years ago whence I was a young lad everyweekend me girlfriend and I took trains buses whatever to find historical spots for picknicks.Twas great times and I consumed many a pint in may local houses of spirits.I even sat at a table where the pilgrims knifed into the date they left for the americas.London as a young man was pretty cool when pints only ran about 35p.I guess things have changed but the countryside of England is one of the best places to explore old legends and history.The thing about the country of England is our american ancestry began there and the people I met in the pubs and parks and places were all so kind to young yanks.I listened to many astory of the pilots who kepted England safe during ww1 and 2.God shaved the Queen,lol.Kinda an inside joke,lolol
Good post. Thanks. Nice to hear a bit of a story. Not sarcastic by the way. Genuinely enjoyed your comment
Another historical figure who helps make the British Isles an amazing place.
Love the photos. The camera was invented in the 13th century.
You're silly. _Obviously_ anime was more realistic, back then!
@@Nmethyltransferase sure, sure, they had cameras in the 13th century, but they couldn't doctor the photos, the dial-up took CENTURIES !! On a merrier note, there was no fake news !!
Yeah. But only Black and White.
@JayoJay ha ha....thou couldst be bang on !!
According to Tommy Steel (hold it flash bang wallop) the camera was around at the time of Adam and Eve
I’m sure you have a cunning plan to get out of this one Baldrick.
In Mirfield near Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, there is a priesthood of the Christian church ( where they train priests ) .
The place and it's lands are strictly private.
In a certain part of the garden is a grave and on the gravestone writes...
' herith lay'th robin hood '
Lol I used to go to three nuns regularly when I lived in Mirfield.
Funny to hear the dial-up modem. High tech!
Nostalgia😜
Ironically Tony Robinson played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Maid Marian. lol Also that comment "he robbed the rich and kept it" was pretty funny lol.
I have a cunning plan ... we should send Sir Tony, back though history and ...
"[This], I have to tell you, is a [B]aldrick..." heheh (around 23:22)
I nearly fell out of my chair when he said that!
At 23:25 he mentions a "baldric".. Clever reference.. ;-)
A clever reference would be a cup of coffee made of mud and dandruff.
This is definitely the best Robin Hood documentary, I recently went in the woods near Kirklees priory and that place is definitely haunted, I don’t know why but I bet robin is Robert earl of Huntingdon from Wakefield, too many things tie in with the story
A detail that will escape most people is this: He was a robber and he wore hood, his gang of robbers wore hoods to avoid being identified..they were the "robbing hoods". the truth lies in front of your noses too close to be seen!
Robin Hood is a poetic empirical description to tag a number of people.."He was a Robbing Hood!" to describe a peasant claiming from a lord what was he believes is his..hence the heroic quality of the idea.
The possibility that all of the cases discovered are accounts stemming from the initial green man is also a good case to reinforce legend through the centuries. Meaning that all of the cases would have been part of the overall legend.
Not a possibility at all.
There already has been a space Robin! Canadian TV produced Rocket Robin Hood. I watched it as a kid in the early 70s on PBS in Los Angeles.
"So Robin, you steal from the rich?"
"Of course! That's were all the
money is!"
"And you give to the poor?"
"Whaaat?? I'm not daft! "
love the music in this sets the scene perfectly
Robin Hood was 6ft 1, dark haired, brown eyed and wore a hood:-). The best retelling of the story is by Kip Carpenter staring Michael Praed, as taken off in Maid Marion by dear Sir Tony! Problem was Mike famoulsy cannot see the end of the nose on his face because his sight is so bad so he probably wasn't much cop with a long bow;-)
that google font and that dial up noise oh my so many memories from uni times 😁
In a couple videos I've watched about myths and criptids, the British "green man of the woods" is Britain's bigfoot.
No mention of the Major Oak in Edwinstow? The tree has been dated by it’s rings and shown not to be old enough to have been around in Robyn’s time.
But the tree is still wrapped up in the legends of the area. (Sherwood forest, Nottinghamshire)
The tale being, that Robyn would hide within a hole in the oak tree to escape capture by the sheriffs men. Emerging when the coast was clear.