Graves of Robin Hood and Little John

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@tonymaurice4157 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how something like this has just been forgotten in the woods.. we would never do this for a civil war soldier. Even if it isn't Robin's grave. They're most definitely was an Archer who either fought in a war or was very similar to Robin Hood.

@Kalantarzainali 3 ай бұрын

روحش شاد یادش گرامی ❤❤ از ایران تا انگلیس

@richminor3081 11 ай бұрын

Great video ! I personally like that it is not a huge tourist spot with a cheap gift shop . It has a mystic feeling . Thank you !

@keithnaylor1981 7 ай бұрын

The best tv series on Robin Hood is: THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD, 1975. In this series Robin and his men are, at last, portrayed as real believable people with all the hardships such people would have to endure living off the land with very few pleasures. An important twist at the end, and one which is far more plausible, is that it was NOT Robin who fired his last arrow. He was too weak to draw back the string, so his closest friend did the task, but rather than get the credit for it, he said what people wanted to hear - that Robin fired his last arrow.

@barbaragreen4804 2 жыл бұрын

Part One------THE PRINCE OF ROBBERS “He was the most humane and prince of robbers, ” writes John Major, a sixteenth century historian. The Outlaw Robin Hood --His Yorkshire Legend The popular image of Robin Hood is well known. He lived in Sherwood Forest with a band of Merry Men in the time of Richard the Lionheart. He was a dispossessed nobleman , the Earl of Huntington, who robbed to the rich to give to the poor. His closest friend was the giant ,Little John, and his sweetheart the beautiful Maid Marian. The outlaws all wore smart tunics and tights of Lincoln Green and spent most of their time fighting the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin eventually came to a very sticky end in sleazy and mysterious circumstances at the hand of his kinswoman, the Wicked Prioress of Kirklees, who bled him to death. He fired an arrow from his deathbed and is buried where the arrow fell, on the hillside at Kirklees. Most of this tale is untrue. This distorted image of Robin Hood has come about from centuries of poetic licence at the hand of playwrights , children’s writers and filmmakers , who “sexed him up” as the modern saying goes. Up until recently, also, Robin was not a subject for serious historical study, so the legend grew into more of a romantic myth which distanced the true identity of Robin more and more away from reality. However, there are numerous references to Robin in historical documents as well as ballads written about his exploits, as well as a fair amount of circumstantial evidence. My own interest in the legend began around twenty years ago when I came to Brighouse as a district nurse, and in the course of my work, visited Kirklees Hall, two miles outside the town; I had read that Robin was buried somewhere on this land and was subsequently allowed to see the famous , but little known grave , hidden in the Kirklees woods. Like most people, I wondered why Robin was buried in Yorkshire when everyone knew, he came from Nottinghamshire. This started me on a treasure hunt to discover Robin’s Yorkshire connections, and these will be explored more deeply in the forthcoming weeks. But first we need to try and find out who this elusive character actually was. The earliest references to Robin are in the fourteenth century. In the Vision of Piers Plowman, the rhymester says, “I do not know my paternoster perfectly, but I know rhymes of Robin Hood.......” John Major described Robin’s chivalrous character: “----he never allowed harm to be done to a woman, nor the goods of poor men, but seized the rich oblations of abbots.” Camden described him as “the gentlest of thieves.” Robin was also noted for his devotion to the Virgin Mary and his regular attendance at Mass. He was not a Pagan, as some films have depicted him. Robin was only one of the innumerable outlaws who roamed England in medieval times, but it is only Robin’s name which has been so well preserved in history . Everyone has heard of of Robin Hood ! In this our spacious isle, I think there is not one But he of Robin Hood hath heard and Little John And to the end of time the tale shall ne’er be done Of Scathlock, George a Green and Much the Miller’s Son Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, the outlaws and their trade. Drayton, Polyolbion So who was Robin Hood and when did he live ? Many people have questioned his actual existence but the evidence does support his historical reality. However, the late Canon Isaac Taylor stated that Robin was a solar myth, identified with Hotherus of Saxo Grammaticus. Jacob Grimm went on to say that Robin was Hodekin, a wood sprite of German mythology. Another unidentified writer suggests that Maid Marian is Morgen, the Maiden of the Dawn, and Robin a wood elf, or Woden, the God of War. Others claim that he was Robin o’the Wood, a Green man, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, a Scandinavian warrior deity called Hodt and, in Robin of Sherwood, a television series in the 1980s, a reincarnating will ’o-the wisp shamanic wizard. 2) The 1950’s Wakefield historian, J.W. Walker,who wrote several books about the outlaw, had no time for these fanciful notions and declared, “Yorkshire folk will have none of these theories that would make Robin a solar myth, a forest elf or hobgoblin!” Good for him! The late Reverend Harold Pobjoy who was vicar of Hartshead in the 1930s and author of the wonderful book,The Story of the Ancient Parish of Hartshead cum Clifton wrote: “Robin’s character clearly emerges from the ballads and the traditional picture does not change. It is of a character of great warmth, a born leader, brave beyond the ordinary, skilled, witty, rebellious against the Norman tyrants and willing to risk his life extracting from them some of the wealth be believed belonged to the oppressed poor. There is no suggestion whatsoever of the supernatural. The portrait is of a very human one. There is nothing ethereal about Robin. He is very much a person of flesh and blood........a man, beloved of himself, unbetrayed by people for whom the reward of his apprehension would have seemed a fortune. ” In conclusion Pobjoy writes, “ It is gratifying to think that Robin might have gone to our own St Peter’s on the Hill to say his prayers and hear Mass; and might perhaps re-armed himself from the sturdy bows of the ancient yew tree whose long dead remains still occupy an honoured place near the church door.

@androsstandley9195 2 жыл бұрын

Skelton remains were removed on the estate of the gate house in( arrow shot of the window) some time in the 1930. The grave you are looking at here ...he must have had a cannon. The distance is not possible. Also the the estate owner would have not declared the find. Due to fuss and bother all the rifraf turning up on his land.

@christinehaley2442 3 ай бұрын

Buried in Kirklees Hall near Mirfield.

@paulgrimm 2 жыл бұрын

Just imagine Robin Hood and his band walking through there

@leefurniss Жыл бұрын

It Is marked in the early 1900's maps as Robin Hoods grave site

@knightstemplar6243 2 жыл бұрын

Hood was a very popular name in the day. If he was an actual person he wouldn’t have been the person that Hollywood likes to portray just like dick Turpin