Matter of the Greenwood Document
Robin Hood and the Bishop
- Summary
- Robin escapes the Bishop by swapping clothes with an old woman. One of the four ballads for which the Forresters Manuscript gives the earliest known text, and one of its most radically variant.
- Date
- Forresters text c. 1670s, some seventy years earlier than other witnesses
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- MEDIUM