Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know
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Could Robin Hood Just Have Been Made Up?
The search for the real robin hood, that kind of nominate whom he might have been based on is really interesting to me because it's so tantalizing. But from the way that you spoke about the stories earlier, as potentiall entertainment. Could it just be the this idea of robin hood wasn't inspired by anybody. It was, it was an archetype. It was a stereotype. He may even be based on the wood spirit becoming personified as a person. That is a real possibility. I don't think he was created am to a for falsehope. But i do think he was ar taken on and a with as someone who can offer hope against injustice.
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