Robin Hood and the Monk

Matter of the Greenwood Document

Summary: The finest of the early ballads. Robin quarrels with Little John over a wager, goes alone to Nottingham to hear mass, is betrayed by a monk and captured; John and Much murder the monk and his page and free him by forgery. Ends with Robin acknowledging John as his better. Child 119.
Date: c. 1450 (Cambridge University Library MS Ff.5.48)