Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

135. Robin Hood and the Shepherd

It is but the natural course of exaggeration that the shepherd, having beaten Robin Hood, should beat Little John. This is descending low enough, but we do not see the bottom of this kind of balladry here.

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