Matter of the Greenwood Figure
Herne the Hunter
- Summary
- An antlered spirit named in The Merry Wives of Windsor and attached to a single oak at Windsor - and, since 1984, to Robin Hood. Richard Carpenter made Herne the god who chooses Robin, inventing a pagan Robin that had no prior existence in the tradition and that a great many people now assume is ancient.
- Kind
- legendary
- Note
- A textbook case of the process Hutton documents: a modern invention rapidly acquiring the status of survival.
Worldviews
Prince of Thieves and the Heritage Hero, The Technicolor Robin
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH