![]() ![]() ![]() 1500, refers to "some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood". ![]() ![]() It isn't clear if there was an association of the early "outlaw" character of Robin Hood and the early "May Day" character Robin, but they did become identified, and associated with the "Marian" character, by the 16th century. Childe argues that she originally was portrayed as a trull associated with a lascivious Friar Tuck: "She is a trul of trust, to serue a frier at his lust/a prycker a prauncer a terer of shetes/a wagger of ballockes when other men slepes." īoth a "Robin" and a "Marian" character were associated with May Day by the 15th century, but these figures were apparently part of separate traditions the Marian of the May Games is likely derived from the French tradition of a shepherdess named Marion and her shepherd lover Robin, recorded in Adam de la Halle's Le Jeu de Robin et Marion, circa 1283. Jim Lees in The Quest for Robin Hood (p. 81) suggests that Maid Marian was originally a personification of the Virgin Mary.įrancis J. She appears to have been a character in May Games festivities (held during May and early June, most commonly around Whitsun) and is sometimes associated with the Queen or Lady of May or May Day. Maid Marian (or Marion) is never mentioned in any of the earliest extant ballads of Robin Hood. Maid Marian wears a Tyrolean hat and carries a hunting horn. Robin Hood and Marian in their Bower (1912). ![]()
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