Week 12 Story: The King's Disguise and Friendship with Robin Hood

The King's Disguise and Friendship with Robin Hood
Bibliography: Robin Hood unit. Story Source: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child (1882-1898). Link to Story

Robin Hood was always a mischievous fellow. He never committed crimes that were too terrible, but he often got on the nerves of the king. One day the king decided that he was going to disguise himself as a messenger and meet Robin Hood in the woods.
As soon as the king found out where Robin Hood was he immediately went into disguise and created a message that he could tell Robin Hood. He decided that he was going to come up with a story that the King wanted to meet him and invite Robin Hood to dinner. 

The king left the castle to go on his adventure to find Robin Hood. It took him a lot longer than anticipated as the king was not used to having to do things on his own. Eventually, he was able to find Robin Hood and was excited to relay the message to Robin Hood. 

The king approached Robin Hood and told him that the king was asking for his presence at his castle so that he could build a friendship with him. Robin Hood hesitated to accept the offer as he was surprised by the king's willingness to become friends with him. After a bit of thinking, Robin Hood obliged even though he was a bit weary since normally the king is annoyed by what he does. 

Robin Hood headed back to the castle with the messenger not knowing he was disguised as the king. Once they got back, the messenger offered Robin Hood a new change of clothes for dinner. 

Just as dinner was about to start Robin Hood realized that the king was nowhere in sight which he thought was a little strange. About halfway through the meal after Robin Hood had been wined and dined by the king's servants the messenger started to look a bit more familiar. 

Just as Robin Hood realized that the messenger was the king; he had already come clean about his intentions with disguising himself.  

Although Robin Hood had enjoyed the time with the king he could not risk getting captured. He immediately removed himself from the table and used his arrows to distract the king's guardsman.

Robin Hood was able to escape but would be a lot more careful to not fall into this kind of trickery by the king. 

Authors Note: I have always been a fan of Robin Hood so that is what drew me to start reading these stories. Once, I started reading them I found the language and format a bit difficult to understand. When writing my story I decided to understand as much of the story as I could and rewrite that information while adding a few extra of my own details. Therefore my story is very similar to the original one but it is in plain English versus what they wrote the original story in. 

 



Comments

  1. SonaliNovember 12, 2017 at 3:00 PM

    Hi Alanna!
    It's really cool that you decided to just "modernize" the story to a more current version of the English language. A lot of the stories we've read really have had really old language, so it's nice to see you take the leap and try to decipher it for yourself. I will definitely try to do this with the next story I write based upon one of the old English tales I decided to write about. You did a great job with this!

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  2. UnknownNovember 13, 2017 at 12:17 PM

    Hi Alanna,
    Your story definitely captures the spirit of Robin Hood! I like how you made the king excited about pretending to be a messenger. A couple of editing notes - you use Robin Hood's name a lot. It might be less repetitive if you used pronouns or came up with other things to call him - the compassionate rogue or something of that nature. Also it's somewhat confusing when you say "The king approached Robin Hood and told him that the king was asking for his presence." Perhaps you could clarify that he is in disguise so the sentence is smoother.

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  3. UnknownNovember 15, 2017 at 7:57 PM

    Hi Alanna!

    I really liked that you kept a lot of the original story! I have always loved Robin Hood as well since I grew up watching the movie. I am also glad you did because I too find the original writings hard to understand, so it was nice to be able to read another's interpretation of the writing to see if it is like my own. Thanks for providing another perspective!

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