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Robin Hood: Legends
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In the 1980s British TV series "Robin of Sherwood", creator Richard Carpenter presented Robin Hood as the spiritual son and apprentice of Herne the Hunter, a shaman/god who wore a ritual stag's head headress. Herne the Hunter was originally a folklore figure, the ghost of a gamekeeper, who haunted Windsor Forest. His legend is best known from a mention in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor:
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There are many discrepancies about the period of the Robin Hood legends, most of which arise from a collection of thirty eight ballads, some of which originated in the Middle Ages. A collection made about 1500, known as A Geste of Robyn Hode is the best of these.
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Ballads are the oldest existing form of the Robin Hood legends, although none of them are recorded at the time of the first allusions to him, and many are much later. They evince many common features, often opening with praise of the greenwood and relying heavily on disguise as a plot device, but include a wide variation in tone and plot.[58]
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In some legends, Cheung is depicted as a Robin Hood figure. He paid twice the market price for goods he requisitioned from coastal villages; treated foreign merchant ships with respect, politely demanding protection money from vessels sailing to Canton through local waters; and founded coastal temples whose forecourt terraces served as lookout points.
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There are elements of the Robin Hood myth that relate to other legends. The 'tree of life' is seen as 'Robin's Larder Tree,' supplying all that could be required like the 'Horn of Plenty' or the 'cauldron' of Celtic folklore.
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