robin hood v william wallace

[ken-d-wood]

was robin hood really william wallace?

[jno]

unlikely - Robin Hood is a very English figure, and Wallace is not.

[david1702198]

and William Wallace was a very Scottish figure who feared no one!!!just the sort we like up here!! Robin Hood!!!! dont make me laugh!!!

[trakcab]

How many Scots had heard of William Wallace before the film Braveheart ?.

[Senga 2]

I think almost every school child in Scotland would know about Wallace - the real one not the Mel Gibson fantasy! Wallace was a genuine hero and a true patriot who never attempted to claim the Scottish crown.

[jakamori]

no one said he did. he didnt in the film. sounds likes a guilty conscience there lol.

[deliciou6]

i heard of william wallace
im descended from him
yes i have proof we have evidence of birth death and marraige records that proves it
im not saying that to be cocky but im tired of people telling me im wrong

and william wallace was on the wrong part of the island to be robin hood, even if he did exist

[soozmac]

"how many Scots had heard of Wallace before Braveheart?"

Is that a serious question? His story is taught in every school across the country, he and Robert Bruce are 2 of the most famous figureheads in our country's history.

Your moronic question is like asking how many English people had heard of King Henry the 8th before the tv series The Tudors?

[whiskeryron]

I know where Robin Hood was buried. When he was dying in
his home as Robin of Loxley,he sent for his trusted aide Little John & said to him fetch me my Bow & an Arrow & I will shoot the arrow & wherever it lands,there you will bury me,& that's why he was buried in the ceiling.

[Garmard]

Robin Hood was an early medieval figure,(circa 1200/1245) that looted and murdered travellers on the Great North Road in and around Barnsdale in Yorkshire with his assailent Little John.
Robin Hood and William Wallace although both heroic figures for completely different reasons,they were almost a century apart.
There was never any evidence that Robin Hood came from Nottingham either as the only evidence of his probable existence comes from pipe scrolls in York that describes a Robin Hood owing money to the bishop of York for lands held by him.
The year for the scrolls was 1225.
A further pipe scroll was found dated 1226 that referred to the outlaw as Hobbehood which means evil doer,as this was the case because by that time the scroll describes him as an outlaw.

[Robhaidheuch]

Yes, the legendary hero known to the world as Robin Hood was William Wallace. The argument is to be found in the book William Wallace Robin Hood Revealed, and has not been challenged or refuted by any serious academic.