Robin Hood and the Butcher
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Robin Hood and the Butcher is Child ballad 122. It may have been derived from the similar Robin Hood and the Potter
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meets with a butcher. In some variants, he fights with him. He always buys his goods and goes into Nottingham, where he sells the meat at ridiculously low prices. The other butchers suspect that he is a prodigal, wasting his inheritance. They invite him to the sheriff's, where their guild is feasting. The sheriff asks if he has more animals to sell. Robin takes him to Sherwood and shows him the deer, and then summons his band by his horn.
Robin robs him of his gold and sends him home, saying that his wife's hospitality was all that saved his head.
's Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, although the threat to kill the sheriff at the end was often omitted.
Elements of this ballad also appeared in the 1955 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood
episode "A Guest for the Gallows" where Robin adopts the butcher's identity to rescue Will Stutely
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Robin Hood and the Potter
Robin Hood and the Potter is Child ballad 121, and among the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood.The device of disguising himself as a potter may have been taken from the older legends of Hereward the Wake.-Synopsis:...
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Synopsis
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Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
meets with a butcher. In some variants, he fights with him. He always buys his goods and goes into Nottingham, where he sells the meat at ridiculously low prices. The other butchers suspect that he is a prodigal, wasting his inheritance. They invite him to the sheriff's, where their guild is feasting. The sheriff asks if he has more animals to sell. Robin takes him to Sherwood and shows him the deer, and then summons his band by his horn.
Robin robs him of his gold and sends him home, saying that his wife's hospitality was all that saved his head.
Adaptations
This tale has reappeared in many books of Robin Hood, including Howard PyleHoward Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
's Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, although the threat to kill the sheriff at the end was often omitted.
Elements of this ballad also appeared in the 1955 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a popular British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes. It starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The show aired weekly between 1955 and 1959 on ITV in London in the...
episode "A Guest for the Gallows" where Robin adopts the butcher's identity to rescue Will Stutely
Will Stutely
Will Stutely or Will Stutly is in English folklore a prominent member of Robin Hood's Merry Men.-Ballads:He was present in two of the ballads in the Child collection, although not ones dating from the early medieval period...
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- Adaptation by Howard PyleHoward PyleHoward Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
- Adaptation for children