Legendary hero of medieval England, Robin Hood "robbed the rich to give to the poor", according to one of the numerous ballads written about him. With his band he hides in the impenetrable Sherwood Forest, followed by his sweetheart Marian.
 Constantly fighting against the Sheriff of Nottingham, but loyal to King Richard, the most famous and loved outlaw of all time will bring back to life a period of fascinating historical interest: Nottingham, but loyal to King Richard, the most famous and loved outlaw of all time will bring back to life a period of fascinating historical interest: the Crusades and Richard the Lionheart.
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 Leggendario eroe dell'Inghilterra medioevale, Robin Hood 'rubava ai ricchi per dare ai poveri', come recita una delle tante ballate a lui dedicate. Con la sua banda, tra cui Little John e Friar Tuck, si rifugia nell'inaccessibile foresta di Sherwood, seguito dall'amata Marian. In costante lotta con lo sceriffo di Nottingham ma leale al re, il più famoso e amato fuorilegge della storia farà rivivere un periodo di grande interesse storico come quello delle Crociate e di Riccardo Cuor di Leone.
 Gli stimolanti inserti di approfondimento arricchiscono notevolmente questo piacevole libro di lettura.

Robin Hood – History or legend?

Chapter 1 – Robin outlawed

Extension: The Norman Conquest

Chapter 2 – Oaths in the forest

Extension: Life in town and around castle

Chapter 3 – Much joins the band

Extension: Norman castles

Chapter 4 – The band grows

Extension: Barnsdale, Sherwood Forest and the Royal Forest

Chapter 5 – Adventures in the forest

Extension: Knights in medieval England

Chapter 6 – Marian joins the band

Extension: Entertainment in medieval time: tournaments and feasts

Summing-up activities

Ballad: Robin Hood and the Pedlar

E X T E N S I O N ENTERTAINMENT IN MEDIEVAL TIMES: TOURNAMENTS AND FEASTS A tournament was a pretended battle in which knights practised their fighting skills. The object was not to kill the opponent, but to capture him. The winner got the loser s horse and armour as a prize. In early tournaments large teams of knights fought each other. As many as 3,000 knights fought in a meadow1 outside a town. Later, the  joust  2 became more popular. In it two knights competed by riding at each other with lances, sometimes wearing fancy dress. Tournaments were very dangerous. To improve safety, knights began using blunt3 weapons. As collisions between jousting knights caused injuries4 both to knights and horses, they started using tilts. A tilt was a barrier first used in the XV century to separate jousting knights. At first it was just a rope, but later a wooden barrier was used. The nobles enjoyed the jousting tournaments, but the Church disapproved of them. Another form of entertainment for kings and barons in medieval times were feasts in the castle. To celebrate special occasions, kings ordered the local sheriff to provide5 a lot of food (chickens, eggs, oxen6, pigs, sheep, etc.) and beer. Before eating, though, kings and lords employed testers to test their food, as they lived in fear of being poisoned. During feasts and celebrations performances were held in the castle. The king, in fact, kept dwarves7, fools and jesters8 to entertain them and their guests. 1. 2. 3. 4. meadow: prato, campo. joust: torneo, giostra. blunt: smussato, non affilato. injury: ferita. 5. 6. 7. 8. 72 provide: fornire, procurare. ox (plur.: oxen): bue. dwarf: nano. jester: buffone, giullare. 

SUMMING-UP ACTIVITIES WORKING ON LANGUAGE 1 The forest crossword puzzle. Solve it with the help of the clues. ACROSS   3 Will s surname was ...   5 Robin met a ... on one of his expeditions   8 Robin was a ... man   9 Robin and his men might be attacked by the ...  s men   10 Robin took an ... and fitted it to the bow string   12 Robin was to be Little John s ...   13 Little John said that Robin was a ...   17 Robin and the yeoman gave each other mighty ...   18 Robin started to set off for various places, such as ...   20 Little John said:  I ... loyalty to Robin Hood!    21 Robin and his men drank ...   24 After fighting Little John, Robin had ... on his forehead   26 When Little John joined the band, Robin and his men decided to hold a ... feast   28 The bridge on which Robin and Little John fought was ... . DOWN   1 The road passing through the forest was called the Great ... Road   2 Little John and Robin fought with a ...   4 Tuck was a ...   6 In their free time Robin and his men practised ...   7 Robin s men fenced with ...   11 Robin s and the Sheriff  s men often started a ...   14 Robin and Little John met on a ...   15 The ... was the one who fell into the water   16 Robin s men ... rich travellers   19 Little John was good at ...   22 Robin and his men roasted ...   23 Robin s men took arrows, clothes, jewels and ... from rich travellers   25 Robin s men built ... in the forest   27 Arrows are shot with a ... . 73 

Il leggendario Robin Hood, eroe medioevale, sfida lo sceriffo di Nottingham, rubando ai ricchi per dare ai poveri nella foresta di Sherwood.

Robin Hood - Collana Rainbows

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Robin Hood

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