Legends
Robin Hood
Few have missed the tale of Robin Hood and his Merry Men, between the various film versions, film parodies, cartoons, children's books, and original versions, but the story has at its heart the question of truth. Did this outlaw exist in the time of the Crusades? Or was this a story people were told to show that someone was standing up for the common folk?
Further information can be found HERE
Snopes.com
Rather than being restricted to old stories passed down through generations, legends keep popping up through the wonder and obscenity of the internet. Snopes' treatment is that of identification as truthful or not, rather than just relaying the stories, but many legends on the site remain questionably truthful.
Few have missed the tale of Robin Hood and his Merry Men, between the various film versions, film parodies, cartoons, children's books, and original versions, but the story has at its heart the question of truth. Did this outlaw exist in the time of the Crusades? Or was this a story people were told to show that someone was standing up for the common folk?
Further information can be found HERE
Snopes.com
Rather than being restricted to old stories passed down through generations, legends keep popping up through the wonder and obscenity of the internet. Snopes' treatment is that of identification as truthful or not, rather than just relaying the stories, but many legends on the site remain questionably truthful.