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Of all the popular heroes of the English people, none as ever achieved an equal name and fame with Robin Hood. For more than six hundred years, songs and ballads of this famous outlaw have been familiar on the lips of the peasantry. Kings and princes have been forgotten, but not Robin Hood and his band of bold followers in merry Sherwood Forest. His adventures were told in rhymes, which were sung at village merry-makings. We have no clear evidence of Robin Hood's life history: all is wrapped in the dim mist of legend and ancient history. There are students of the old ballads and stories who say that Robin Hood was an actual leader in Sherwood Forest, a king of the greenwood, a true and living figure, and there are others who say that the doings of a famous band of outlaws have gathered about his name, and that no real Robin Hood existed.