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40 Facts About the Real Robin Hood

Trista May 8, 2019 18 min

5. His Heroism Was in His Resistance to the Sheriff of Nottingham

The sheriff illustrated as an evil wolf. Stuart Studios.

So if Robin Hood probably didn’t steal from the rich to give to the poor, why did he become so popular, especially among the peasants and lower strata of Medieval society? Probably because of his resistance to the Sheriff of Nottingham. Everyone hated him, and anyone who was willing to face him would have indeed become a hero to anyone living under his oppression.

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5. His Heroism Was in His Resistance to the Sheriff of Nottingham

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