Excerpt from Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire As to the story itself, the adventures of Robin Hood, sung in song and ballad, have entertained the anglo-saxon hearers from the time that English first began to form itself into a language, and I find they charm the young readers of to-day as they delighted the young hearers of five hundred years and more ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.