Recordings & Info 130. Robin Hood & the Scotchman
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index [One recording]
4) Wiki
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1) Roud No. 3984: Robin Hood and the Scotchman (2 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Robin Hood and the Scotsman
Traditional Ballad Index: Robin Hood and the Scotchman [Child 130]
DESCRIPTION: "Bold Robin Hood to the north he would go... with valour and mickle might... To fight and recover his right." Robin meets a Scotsman, and offers him a job providing he can pass a test of strength. The Scot pummels Robin and joins his band
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1663
KEYWORDS: Robinhood fight
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REFERENCES: (3 citations)
Child 130, "Robin Hood and the Scotchman" (2 texts)
Bronson 130, comments only
BBI, (no number given; should perhaps be ZRN24), "Then bold Robin Hood to the north"
Roud #3984
NOTES: For background on the Robin Hood legend, see the notes on "A Gest of Robyn Hode" [Child 117].
Fully half the Robin Hood ballads in the Child collection (numbers (121 -- the earliest and most basic example of the type), 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, (133), (134), (135), (136), (137), (150)) share all or part of the theme of a stranger meeting and defeating Robin, and being invited to join his band. Most of these are late, but it makes one wonder if Robin ever won a battle. - RBW
Child Collection Index- Child Ballad 130: Robin Hood and the Scotchman
Child-- Artist-- Title-- Album-- Year-- Length-- Have
130 Hester NicEilidh Robin Hood and the Scotsman Robin Hood Ballad Project 2006 2:35 Yes
Robin Hood and the Scotchman: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robin Hood and the Scotchman is Child ballad 130.[1]
Synopsis
Robin Hood goes north and meets with a Scot, who wishes to enter his service. Robin refuses, because the Scot will prove false. A fight ensues. One variant is truncated at this point, but the other ends with the man entering his service.
References
1.^ Francis James Child (1898). English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: [Houghton, Mifflin and Company]]. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch130.htm. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
External links"Robin Hood and the Scotchman — Child's Version A". Rochester, New York, USA: University of Rochester. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/chscota.htm.
"Robin Hood and the Scotchman — Child's Version B". Rochester, New York, USA: University of Rochester. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/chscotb.htm.