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40 Facts About the Real Robin Hood

Trista May 8, 2019 18 min

33. The Legends Grew and Evolved Into the Stories We Know Today

Statue of Robin Hood at the Robin Hood Memorial. Wikimedia.

Myths may come out of nowhere, but legends do not. They take on layer after layer after layer, until the kernel of truth inside them appears to be lost. As the Robin Hood legends grew in popularity and spread all over England, they took on new layers that caused them to morph into the stories we recognize today.

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33. The Legends Grew and Evolved Into the Stories We Know Today

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