[MR] 'Negative' attitude to Robin Hood --- BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife |

[M'lady Foxy]

 I will no longer be known as a member of highlande foorde.. I am embarrassed that people in my group would form judgment based on lack of facts to circumstances that got people to where they are and instead make quick judgments that include all.I thank those that have been kind to me and for letting me camp with the Barony at pennsic last year while recovering from an injury.
 To clarify the system is abused by those that seek to abuse it... not by those that are grateful for the system being here to help them though a hard time.Through out our history there has been those that have less then others.Regardless we all should be treated as what we are .. human .. no less no more.

--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Glynis Gwynedd <ylandra at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Glynis Gwynedd <ylandra at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] 'Negative' attitude to Robin Hood --- BBC NEWS | UK |  Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife |
To: "M'lady Foxy" <angellfoxx at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2:14 PM

I disagree. I'm paying for the poor to smoke their cigarettes, drink
booze, and laze around their section 8 housing on welfare and food
stamps, while I work hard to pay for my house and buy groceries and
pay my bills on time. The difference between Robin Hood and current
government is that current government has a flawed system in place
that makes the poor stay poor so they can keep getting government
handouts.

Few people in this nation know true poverty. The governnment makes
sure of that by training each generation of welfare recipients in how
the system works.

But as far as the original article goes, history is what historians
agree happened, not what actually happened. Of course someone
somewhere will disagree with the rest of them. That's human nature.

~Lady Glynis Gwynedd
Barony of Highland Foorde
"Have you hugged a harp today?"
--
"To this end should a truly chivalrous man know something of arts and
courtesies as befits the quality of his character, else the world
shall think him nothing but a knuckle-dragging troglodyte in
vambraces." -Lady Swannoc



On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:05 PM, M'lady Foxy <angellfoxx at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I see no diffrence between robin hood and current goverment ... they steal from rich and poor has to make up extra diffrence in taxes to repay the lost money... wanna buy a car anyone?
>
> --- On Sun, 3/15/09, David Chessler <chessler at usa.net> wrote:
>
> From: David Chessler <chessler at usa.net>
> Subject: [MR] 'Negative' attitude to Robin Hood --- BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife |
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 12:47 PM
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7941504.stm
>
> 00:20 GMT, Saturday, 14 March 2009
>
> 'Negative' attitude to Robin Hood
>
> Robin Hood statue
>
>
>
> A Scottish expert has uncovered a medieval document suggesting
> negative attitudes towards Robin Hood.
>
> The story of how Robin and his men stole from the rich to give to the
> poor has long been part of English folklore.
>
> However, Julian Luxford of St Andrews University found a dissenting
> voice in a Latin inscription from about 1460 in a manuscript owned by
> Eton College.
>
> The previously unknown chronicle entry says Robin "infested" parts of
> England with "continuous robberies".
>
> Dr Luxford, an expert in medieval manuscript studies, said: "Rather
> than depicting the traditionally well-liked hero, the article
> suggests that Robin Hood and his merry men may not actually have been
> 'loved by the good'.
>
> "The new find contains a uniquely negative assessment of the outlaw,
> and provides rare evidence for monastic attitudes towards him."
>
> The pre-Reformation article is the only English chronicle entry to
> have been discovered which mentions Robin Hood.
>
> Three Scottish medieval authors are also thought to have set Robin in
> a chronological context.
>
> Partners-in crime
>
> Dr Luxford said: "The new find places Robin Hood in Edward I's reign,
> thus supporting the belief that his legend is of 13th Century origin."
>
> A translation of the short inscription, which contains only 23 words
> in Latin, reads: "Around this time, according to popular opinion, a
> certain outlaw named Robin Hood, with his accomplices, infested
> Sherwood and other law-abiding areas of England with continuous robberies."
>
> Dr Luxford said, "While Little John is not mentioned here, Robin is
> assigned partners-in crime.
>
> "And the inscription's author does at least acknowledge that these
> men were active elsewhere in England.
>
> "By mentioning Sherwood it buttresses the hitherto rather thin
> evidence for a medieval connection between Robin and the
> Nottinghamshire forest with which he has become so closely associated."
>
> An article on the discovery will be published later this month in the
> Journal of Medieval History.
>
>
> --
>
> YIS
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