HERO

What really happened

to Robin Hood,

the hero of my youth?

He left,

my innocence

hanging from his fist,

dragging on the floor

like a cape.

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[Stella Armour]

Robin Hood's Grave is the name given to a monument in Kirklees Park Estate, West Yorkshire, England, near the now-ruined Kirklees Priory. It is alleged to be the burial place of English folk hero Robin Hood.

Not far from where i live .... mind you he was a real hero today he would be buried with honour and an OBE .

[Vol]

Stella,
From what research i have done, Sherwood Forest (what's left of it) and Nottingham are in a part of England that was once called "Lindsey."
Vol

[Stella Armour]

Sherwood Forest is about 15 miles from here or even less it is in Nottinghamshire , but it doesn’t seem Robin of Loxley is buried there , it’s mostly all folk lore anyway . I would think a man fitting the time and place existed and supported king Richard against his brother John but personally I wouldn’t believe all you read about his adventures lol

[Stella Armour]

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Lindsey, an early Anglo-Saxon kingdom and bishopric, probably coterminous with the modern districts of East Lindsey and West Lindsey, in Lincolnshire. It was an area of early settlement by the Angles and was ruled by its own kings until the late 8th century.

lincoln shire is another county not thart far from Nottinghamshire ...nothing to do with Robin Hood as far as i know

[Stella Armour]

Vol ...have messaged you the link you need :)

[Farjana Chaity]

The image of innocence hanging from his fist and dragging on the floor like a cape is a powerful metaphor for the way in which childhood ideals and naivety can be shattered by the harsh realities of adulthood.

[Vol]

Farjana,
Thank you for visiting, I came from a stable, loving home which creates a measure of innocence that is hard to lose. I know that in much of the world, there is no stability, and little love, families that know nothing of innocence, and I feel sorry for them...
Vol

[John the Baptist]

The last I heard, he took on a consulting job advising the Sheriff of Nottingham on how to handle police brutality claims.

[Vol]

John,
A hero who sells his soul... the reason there is so little innocence left to go around.
Vol

[Vol]

When I was 9, I was exiled to my Grandmother's house in Winterhaven, Florida. She was a pure Victorian who believed if you were smiling, you were sinning and needed to stop. Now.
That was 1958, and she had no TV, no boy toys, and there were no kids in the neighborhood. She DID have a library, Among her books was Robin Hood. I had seen the Saturday morning live-action series and knew some of what to expect.
What I did not expect was the rabbit hole I fell into. I WAS Robin, Little John knocked ME off the log and into the creek, Marion WAS my woman... and I died when the nun poisoned me. I cried for a week when it was over... I've been a reader ever since and with hundreds more heroes along the way.

[Lorry]

I heard that the common thinking these days was that the original "Robin Hode" was a tale made up by cloth merchants to sell their wares and that like everything we are told by cinema, they even got the colour wrong... It was Lincoln grain, not green. Its apperently a reddish!/purple and they must looked so inconspicuous in the forest.
I can find no proof of this,other than the original episode, which can be found on YouTube.
I'm guessing you didn't add red or purple tights to your acts of youthful derring do! 😊

[Vol]

Lorry,
It is quite easy to lose one's innocence when you are lost inter woods with a gang of outlaws dressed in tights, no matter what color of the rainbow they are wearing...
Vol

[Lorry]

If only we could travel back and introduce Errol Flynn's bunch to Mel Brooks bunch! 😊

[Vol]

What a trip that would be!

[willweb]

Sadly, Errol Flynn died but what did happen to the heroes of our youth? What about Popeye, Johnny Quest, He-man. I guess even heroes can be replaced.

[Vol]

WW,
I think we left them on the forest floor when we walked away...
Vol