Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

153. Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight

Written, perhaps, because it was thought that authority should in the end be vindicated against outlaws, which may explain why this piece surpasses in platitude everything that goes before. (See Introduction to Nos. 151, 152.)

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