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Scott directed a revisionist adaptation of Robin Hood, which starred Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian.
Little John, Much the Miller's Son and Will Scarlet ( as Will " Scarlok " or " Scathelocke ") all appear, although not yet Maid Marian or Friar Tuck.
It is commonly stated as fact that Maid Marian and a jolly friar ( at least partly identifiable with Friar Tuck ) entered the legend through the May Games.
) The theory supplies Robin Hood with a wife, Matilda, thought to be the origin of Maid Marian, and Hunter also conjectured that the author of the Gest may have been the religious poet Richard Rolle ( 1290 – 1349 ), who lived in the village of Hampole in Barnsdale.
Robin Hood and Maid Marian
It is from the association with the May Games that Robin's romantic attachment to Maid Marian ( or Marion ) apparently stems.
Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ), but these may have been originally two distinct types of performance – Alexander Barclay in his Ship of Fools, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " – but the characters were brought together.
To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.
The 1976 British-American film Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, portrays the figures in later years after Robin has returned from service with Richard the Lionheart in a foreign crusade and Marian has gone into seclusion in a nunnery.
Specific sites linked to Robin Hood include the Major Oak tree, claimed to have been used by him as a hideout, Robin Hood's Well, located near Newstead Abbey ( within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest ), and the Church of St. Mary in the village of Edwinstowe, where Robin and Maid Marian are historically thought to have wed. To reinforce this belief, the University of Nottingham in 2010 has begun the Nottingham Caves Survey with the goal " to increase the tourist potential of these sites ".
* Maid Marian
Wright was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant.
In 1989 he created the children's comedy TV series Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a loose retelling of the legend of Robin Hood in which he appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
* Maid Marian and her Merry Men ( 1989 – 1994 ) – Sheriff of Nottingham & creator / writer
Robin goes alone to see Prince John at Gisbourne's castle and announces to John's assembled supporters and a contemptuous Maid Marian that he will do all in his power to oppose John and restore Richard to his rightful place.
Among Robin's " guests " are Gisbourne, the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham, and Maid Marian.
He suggests to Prince John that he announce an archery tournament, with the grand prize a golden arrow to be presented by Maid Marian, knowing that Robin will be unable to resist the challenge.
Richard is restored to the throne ; he exiles his brother, pardons the outlaws, returns Robin's earldom and ' orders ' him to marry Maid Marian.
* Olivia de Havilland as Lady " Maid " Marian Fitzwalter
Maid Marian never had that trouble in Sherwood Forest.
* Robin Hood: Robin Hood, Little John, Maid Marian, Lady Kluck, Friar Tuck, Prince John, Sir Hiss, the Sheriff of Notingham, Nutsy, Trigger, Allan-A-Dale, the Rhino Guards, the Captain of the Guard, Toby Turtle, Skippy Bunny, Sis Bunny, Tagalong Bunny, and Mother Rabbit.
After appearing with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).

Maid and was
In Aberdeen, Scotland, the shipbuilders Alexander Hall and Sons developed the " Aberdeen " clipper bow in the late 1830s: the first was the Scottish Maid launched in 1839.
The Scottish Maid, 150 tons OM, was the first British clipper ship.
" Scottish Maid was intended for the Aberdeen-London trade, where speed was crucial to compete with steamships.
Scottish Maid proved swift and reliable and the design was widely copied.
He featured in a Lyons Maid ice cream commercial, but was rejected for another by Kit Kat.
This World Series was marked by a controversy involving the Minute Maid Field roof.
While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.
In 1430 Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais, promoted a trial against Joan of Arc, who was also known as the " Maid of Orleans ".
Pausanias records a grove of Cabeirian Demeter and the Maid, three miles outside the gates of Thebes, where a ritual was performed, so called on the grounds that Demeter gave it to the Cabeiri, who established it at Thebes.
In early 1534, More was accused of conspiring with the " Holy Maid of Kent ," Elizabeth Barton, a nun who had prophesied against the king's annulment, but More was able to produce a letter in which he had instructed Barton not to interfere with state matters.
For this he was thrown into Beauchamp Tower, and after a year's liberation again imprisoned, in December, 1533, on the charges of disseminating the prophecies of the Maid of Kent, encouraging the queen " obstinately to persist in her wilful opinion against the same divorce and separation ", and maintaining her right to the title of queen.
The heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter, Margaret, Maid of Norway.
Among the protest songs in the book are " Hallelujah, I'm a Bum " ( this song was never popular among members ), " Union Maid ", and " I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night ".
In Ives's view this would also be around the minimum age that a girl could be a Maid of Honour, as Anne was to the regent, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.
Margaret ( Gaelic: Mairead or Maighread ) ( 9 April 1283 – 26 September 1290 ) was Queen of Scots and a Norwegian princess, also known as Margaret of Scotland ( Norwegian: Margrete av Skottland ) and the Maid of Norway ( Norwegian: Jomfruen av Norge ).
Collins wrote the 1978 death of Moon Maid, and removed other Gould creations of the 1960s and 1970s ( including Groovy Grove, who was gravely wounded in the line of duty and later died in the hospital ; Lizz married him before his death ).
In 1290, the Guardians of Scotland signed the Treaty of Birgham agreeing to the marriage of the Maid of Norway and Edward of Caernarvon, the son of Edward I, who was Margaret's great-uncle.
Then, in 1286, King Alexander died himself, leaving as heir to the throne of Scotland the three-year-old Margaret, the Maid of Norway, who was born in 1283 to Alexander's daughter Margaret and King Eric II of Norway.
Minutes later, Woodward was plucked from the roiling plunge pool beneath the Horseshoe Falls after grabbing a life ring thrown to him by the crew of the Maid of the Mist boat.

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