Matter of the Greenwood Document
Piers Plowman, B-text (the Sloth passage)
- Summary
- Sloth confesses that he cannot say his paternoster properly but knows 'rymes of Robyn hood and Randolf erle of Chestre'. The earliest datable reference to Robin Hood stories, and it is a complaint about people knowing them.
- Date
- c. 1377
- Author
- William Langland
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH