Robin Hood: English Outlaw (the origins of the legend and the search for a historical Robin Hood)

by Richard Denham

The character of Sloth in The Vision of Piers Plowman, written by William Langland c.1377 admits that his Lord’s Prayer (‘pater-noster’) is imperfect – because he had only heard it in Latin in church and could not read it – but he did know the rhymes of Robin Hood.

Piers Plowman