英语词汇robin hood的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Robin Hood. Robin Hood, chivalrous defender of the poor and oppressed, may have been based on the earl of Huntington, Robert Fitz-Ooth, an outlawed 12th-century English nobleman (b. ca. 1160) who harassed England’s Norman invaders. Ac- cording to this popular theory, Fitz taken away from Fitz-Ooth leaves us with ooth, the th in this changing to d and yielding Robert Ood—not too far removed from Robin Hood. Both the bow and arrow of Robin Hood and the site of his grave are at Kirkless Hall in Yorkshire, where Robert Fitz-Ooth, legend says, was bled to death by a treacherous nun in 1247. But there are abundant theories and places claiming Robin Hood as their own. The legendary outlaw is likely a composite of numerous stories about many early English heroes.

词汇	robin hood
词源	Robin Hood. Robin Hood, chivalrous defender of the poor and oppressed, may have been based on the earl of Huntington, Robert Fitz-Ooth, an outlawed 12th-century English nobleman (b. ca. 1160) who harassed England’s Norman invaders. Ac- cording to this popular theory, Fitz taken away from Fitz-Ooth leaves us with ooth, the th in this changing to d and yielding Robert Ood—not too far removed from Robin Hood. Both the bow and arrow of Robin Hood and the site of his grave are at Kirkless Hall in Yorkshire, where Robert Fitz-Ooth, legend says, was bled to death by a treacherous nun in 1247. But there are abundant theories and places claiming Robin Hood as their own. The legendary outlaw is likely a composite of numerous stories about many early English heroes.
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