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Question by  Maggz (29)

Was there really a Sherwood of the Forest?

What did he do?

 
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Answer by  xela (349)

Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest is a popular folk legend existing in several folk ballads. Often he is portrayed as a commoner who steals from the rich and gives to the poor but in later adaptations he is portrayed as a rich person whose lands were taken by the king.

 
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Answer by  Ginny (2251)

It is Robin Hood, a fictional rogue character from medieval England, whose hideout was supposed to be located in Sherwood Forest, which is a real Royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England.

 
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