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It is unmarked and not the victorian grave folly in the woods. It is close to the old priory but this is not common knowledge anymore. I was there in 1973 and learned the true location from the staff.

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2008-04-02 by Jack from California

Robin would NOT have used a longbow

Contrary to popular belief, Robin Hood would not have used a longbow (as his era was before the longbow came about) and would not have used a small recurve bow (like in the crappy BBC series), but a hunting-type bow.

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2007-07-11 by Iain M from Gloucester

Comment on Robin Hood

A story told and re-told for over 700 years. A classic battle against tyranny... a story we all learn as children... how can he NOT be an icon?

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2007-03-30 by Ian Smith from UK

Robin Hood

As a male actor i think Marian and Robin are very good actor although most people think different.Marian is a stunning young woman who can act about 24 different ways (brill)!!!!!Robin on the other hand is very seroius about his work although he has a big sense of humor (fantastic)!!!!!!!!

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2007-01-23 by George Smith from s70 2ep

Comment on Robin Hood

He belongs to a forgotten mythological past that has created around the story a legend that will not fade. This is due solely to the story line changing each decade and each century. each inclusion of a new character or a twist in the tale, ie; The recent addition of the Moor in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves has given new interest to the Myth.

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2006-10-11 by Mel Price from Wyke, West Yorkshire

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Comment on Robin Hood posted 2006-10-05 by barbara green from west yorkshire

Comment on Robin Hood

Barbara Green and Ruth Harrington formed the Yorkshire Robin Hood Society in 1984 to promote the claim that (a) Robin Hood was a Yorkshireman, and (b) that he is buried in a grave on the Kirklees Priory Estate. The Yorkshire claim is based on someone called Robert of Wakefield whose wife was named Matilda. Hence Robert and Matilda become ?Robin and Marion.? There is a problem with this theory owing to the fact that scholars agree that written references about the outlaw Robin Hood significantly predate when Robert and Matilda of Wakefield were born. Also, scholars do not believe the ?Maid Marion? aspect to have any validity. There is no evidence she existed. Robin Hood himself could have been any one of innumerable scoundrels and cut-throats of a period covering more than a century, and it might well have been a collective name. There is more than one grave claimed by local enthusiasts to be the tomb of Robin Hood in West Yorkshire, but none seem to be anything more than a much later adaptation. The Kirklees grave with its erroneous Victorian inscription is definitely not the tomb of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood ~ of that we can be absolutely certain. It is only one of a number of graves, mostly unmarked, in that immediate vicinity. That notwithstanding, as recorded in Land of Lost Content (1812): ?There was a mystery about it which local people only reluctantly tried to penetrate. The mystery was helped physically by the thick shroud of trees that surrounded the place, and was sustained by local tales of ghosts of prioresses and nuns ? ? Se�n Manchester wrote: ?Eventually a specialist group was formed called Gravewatch ? [with] the Vampire Research Society. Its express purpose is to keep a vigil at the Kirklees grave site in a determined effort to unearth its sinister secrets and solve the centuries old mystery of the Kirklees phenomenon ~ whether it be vampire or not ?? (The Vampire Hunter?s Handbook, page 36, Gothic Press, 1997). He established earlier in the chapter titled The Kirklees Vampire: ?Interest was less concentrated on the precise identity of Robin Hood?s burial place, than the unearthly wanderings beyond the grave on which tombstone appears the inscription: ?Here underneath dis laitl stean Laz Robert earl of Huntingtun?.? (The Vampire Hunter?s Handbook, page 29, Gothic Press, 1997). The folly headstone placed on the tomb centuries after the grave?s existence by a hoaxer with either a sense of humour or a bad case of dyslexia seems to have been enough, coupled with the ?Robert of Wakefield? myth, to convince some folk that this might the final resting-place of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood.

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2006-09-29 by Vampire Research Society from England, United Kingdom

Comment on Robin Hood

From what I have seen of the new BBC film Robin is wearing a quiver of arrows on his back like a Red Indian and not a medieval bowman, and he is firing from a shortbow instead of a longbow. Maid Marian is flopping around on a double bed like Mae West (though I do like Mae West) and saying "Ooh, what a charmer Robin is, come up and see me sometime!" more or less! I suppose it will be the usual rubbish and Yorkshire wont get a look in! Barbara Green Yorkshire Robin Hood Society

Comment on Robin Hood posted 2006-09-28 by barbara green from west yorkshire