The legendary outlaw of the 12th century in England, Robin Hood, may have been a mythical folk hero, but it is also possible that he was a real person, perhaps even an Earl of Huntingdon. In the legend Robin is outlawed for opposing the sheriff of Nottingham's unjust ways. The sheriff is an ally of Prince John during his rule over the country while King Richard the Lionheart is away on the Crusades. Robin takes refuge in Sherwood Forest and gathers a band of 'Merrie Men' about him, including Little John, the archer, Friar Tuck, and Maid Marion, his beloved. He robs the rich to help the poor, is chivalrous, manly and fair, and generally embodies the ideals of the English yeoman. The story appears first in Piers Plowman (1377) and Robin is also the hero of thirty ballads written between 1100 and1500. He also appears in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1819).
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