When travelling in England, I usually carry a copy of Alfred Noyes’s poem “Sherwood” it has visited places such as the graves of Will Scarlet, Little John, and Robin Hood.
You can tell whether you’re getting nearer or farther from it by the liveliness of the greenery. – Sherwood is the most beautiful place on earth. Having dreamed about Sherwood practically daily for years, I worried about being disappointed when seeing it for the first time. When retelling the story, I took the opportunity to bring to the foreground a number of characters, and show them working together in Robin’s absence to effect his rescue. In the fragmented original poem, Little John comes across as the main character. This arrest is at the core of one of the more obscure medieval tales, which I later included in my novel The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood. Mary’s parish church in Nottingham, where Robin Hood is said to have been captured by the Sheriff. On Sunday mornings, my usual haunt was St. I also spent three days at a workshop in the woods on the Derbyshire-Leicestershire border learning how to hand carve a bow.
I joined the university’s archery society, practicing three to six hours a week, and shooting within the grounds of Nottingham Castle, as well as in Sherwood Forest, “poaching” a plastic deer. Living in Robin Hood Country showed me a lot. Studying at Nottingham was an amazing opportunity to pick the brains of a number of expert medievalists, gain access to a dizzying amount of source material, and experience the places where Robin Hood is said to have trod. As a Medieval Studies grad student at the University of Nottingham, I took history and archaeology, as well as Middle English language and literature courses, with the goal of writing a well-rounded dissertation on the social history behind an early to mid-thirteenth century Robin Hood figure. Fans of the legend shouldn’t miss this retelling! Read on for more details.Ĭhandler: At four years old, I first saw the Disney cartoon movie of Robin Hood, and since then he has been one of my heroes. Chandler with an article on her novel based on the story of Robin Hood, The Scarlet Forest.
0 kommentar(er)
