There is also the layering on of fiction from movies and television. As a child I remember watching Richard Greene as Robin Hood--I don't remember anyone else in the cast. And there were quite a few viewings of the Errol Flynn/Basil Rathbone/Claude Raines version also. I haven't seen the newer films, Connery and Hepburn, or the Costner telling. If anything, I'll go dig out the Mel Brook's movie.

The trees portrayed in the Flynn movie must have been oaks--even if they were a California variety. They're just the best kind of tree for dangling netting and conducting ambushes from, I'm sure of it!
;-)

SRS