Robin Hood

Gillian Tindall reviews a work on the English folk hero of Sherwood Forest

Gillian Tindall | Published in 31 Aug 1982
  • Robin Hood
    J.C. Holt. 208pp. (Thames & Hudson, 1982)
This erudite book is odder than it seems, not because of what it says but because of it does not say. It is a detailed and enthusiastic account of a research project which, though illuminating in a number of respects, seems designed not to reveal an overall truth but to obscure it.

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