We all think we know Robin Hood — that benevolent renegade who roamed Sherwood Forest, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, hanging out with Friar Tuck and eventually being portrayed by Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
But that characterization may be even more inaccurate than we think: one historian now argues that the fabled woodsman may in fact have been modeled on a medieval guerrilla fighter who terrorized the French forces that occupied southern England in 1216.
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