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40 Facts About the Real Robin Hood

Alan Rickman - Robin Hood
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10. There Have Been Multiple Robin Hoods

In the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves version, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was Maid Marian. Pinterest.

With dozens or more figures identified as potential Robin Hoods, coupled with the possibilities that it was just a nickname or a general term for a particular breed of a bandit, there is no way to know where the stories originated. There may have been multiple Robin Hoods, whose stories merged to form the legends that we recognize today. An earlier one may have represented the former legends, while later ones became the stuff of the following stories.

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