Date: 2019-09-05 01:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] callunav
That does sound intriguing. I always wanted Marian to run off with her maid, but that possibility seems to go largely unexplored.

Tangential: I know one folksong about Robin Hood. This is bona fide from the 1600s. Internet sources I find show only the first verse, but the aging, yellowed folksong book I found it in has three. The tune is vaguely reminiscent of Greensleeves in minors and incidentals. I reproduce it here in its entirety:

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, said Little John
Come dance before the queen-ah
In a red petticoat and a green jacket
A white hose and a green-ah.

Robin Hood, Robin Hood rode into town
And danced before the queen-ah
In a red petticoat and a green jacket
A white hose and a green-ah.

Robin Hood, Robin Hood said to his men
Ne'er dance before the queen-ah
In a red petticoat and a green jacket
A white hose and a green-ah.

...don't ask me, I have no idea.
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