Apropos of nothing, but interesting, I went to a seminar about cultural memory and exemplary figures once, and the speaker spent a lot of time talking about Robin Hood as kind of the model for what she was studying. Something that stuck with me was that (as far as I remember) that the association of Robin Hood and “steals from rich/gives to poor” (along with a number of other elements that we think of as essential to Robin Hoods) were additions to the tradition attributable to a satirical version of the story written in the very early 19th century.
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