Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:31:58 +1000 (EST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jeremy=20Dixon?= <jeremytrewindixon-AT-yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Robin and  Wallace 



> 
> If I can find it! I think it was on the Scotpol list
> that I saw it, it would be in their archives, which
> are freely available so you could take a look
> yourself,
> go to google, or to yahoo groups, and search
> Scotpol  -  Robin Hood  -  William Wallace.

Will do. In the meantime I can add that the Geste, the
15thc Robin Hood verse "novel", names RH's king as
"Edward"...the king who fought Wallace was Edward I
wasn't he? The king Edward who pardoned Robin Hood, as
I think several commentators have pointed out, sounds
more like Edward II, the gay king who was murdered by
his barons with a red hot poker being stuck up his
bum. Which might explain why Robin returned to the
greenwood.......


I greatly believe in the importance of festivals and
the often subliminal messages they spread through the
culture. (Santa Claus as created in the 19th c by
Thomas Nast, for example, with his factory of elves,
delivers a message of the essential benevolence of
industrial capitalism.) A revolutionary May Day with a
revolutionary Robin Hood as part of its festivities
would be pretty cool. Of course, in Scotland at least,
I imagine he would be "Robin Wallace Hood"!

OK, another factoid check. (Thanks,BTW, for your reply
to factoid 1.) Remember the Robin Hood TV series from
the 60s? Is it true that blacklisted alleged
communists from Hollywood worked on it?  
> 
>  > Of course, some of the correspondences you give
>  > are more striking than others, living on the
> kings deer
>  > was a cliche of medieval outlawry for example.
> 
> Yes. But Wallace habitually wore green, was an
> expert archer,
> had a wife named Marion, several colleagues who fit
> descriptions
> of RH's friends, and lived shortly before the first
> appearance
> of the "Robin Hood" legend. While that legend is
> probably
> based on a number of different sources, I would say
> that these correspondences are enough to make
> it seem pretty certain that Wallace was one of them.
> 
> Dave C 
> 
> 
>  

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