Robin Hood Aided by Sheriff of Nottingham
Brochures besmirching the legend of Robin Hood were ordered publicly burned by an unlikely defender of the medieval hero, the sheriff of Nottingham.
Sheriff Royce Young told Councilman Brian Marshal, chairman of the city’s tourism committee, to get rid of the glossy color leaflets that took a skeptical view of the hero of Sherwood Forest.
A pile of the brochures, which had been on display at the Nottingham Information Center, were burned publicly last week.
Young, whose medieval predecessor was Robin’s enemy, said earlier this month that he would like to see the researchers who wrote it “locked in the dungeons of Nottingham Castle.”
The brochure caused a storm by claiming Robin Hood and Maid Marian never met, Friar Tuck did not exist and Robin never robbed the rich to feed the poor but was a highwayman in business for himself.
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