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Thread #129585 Message #2913067
Posted By: Rob Naylor
24-May-10 - 09:00 AM
Thread Name: Accents: Russel Crowe and Robin Hood?
Subject: RE: Accents: Russel Crowe and Robin Hood?
Edthefolkie: Nah then yoth, let's leave these irrelevant attempts to get Russell to talk Yorkshire. As everybody knows, Robin Hood is from North Notts duck
Nah, w'eve disposed of that myth way back, and in other threads. He was supposedly from Loxley (in Yorkshire), the first known "Robin Hood" named place is a well in Yorkshire, He's buried at clifton in Yorkshire. Little John "kept kine at Hartshead" (in Yorkshire) and is supposedly buried at Hathersage on the Yorkshire/ Derbyshire border. The early ballads put him as operating in Barnsdale Forest in Yorkshire.
Where is Notts in all this? Just because a bunch of Midland upstarts "nicked" him sometime in the 1700s we're supposed to accept him as a Midlander? Ha!!!