Hodd

by Adam Thorpe | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099503662 Global Overview for this book
Registered by cally-c of Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on 1/15/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by cally-c from Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Who was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as outlaw, archer, and hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian, stealing from the rich to give to the poor - but there is no historical proof to back this up. The early ballads portray a quite different figure: impulsive, violent, vengeful, with no concern for the needy, no merry band, and no Maid Marian.


Hodd provides a possible answer to this famous question, in the form of a medieval document rescued from a ruined church on the Somme, and translated from the original Latin. The testimony of an anonymous monk, it describes his time as a boy in the greenwood with a half-crazed bandit called Robert Hodd - who, following the thirteenth-century principles of the 'heresy of the Free Spirit', believes himself above God and beyond sin. Hodd and his crimes would have been forgotten without the boy's minstrel skills, and it is the old monk's cruel fate to know that not only has he given himself up to apostasy and shame, but that his ballads were responsible for turning a murderous felon into the most popular outlaw hero and folk legend of England, Robin Hood.

Journal Entry 2 by cally-c at Sainsbury's Coffee Shop in Chesterfield, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Friday, April 27, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (4/26/2018 UTC) at Sainsbury's Coffee Shop in Chesterfield, Derbyshire United Kingdom

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