Robin Hood is an outlaw of the medieval era in archetypal English folk tales, who may be based on a true story. Many accounts of Robin Hood, though not the very earliest, bear a striking similarity to accounts of the life of Fulk FitzWarin, a Norman noble who was disinherited and became an outlaw and an enemy of John of England. In the oldest legends, this is because a sheriff is by profession an outlaw's enemy,but in later versions, the sheriff is despotic and gravely abuses his position, appropriating land, levying excessive taxation, and persecuting the poor...
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