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.

Both Robin and Marian were certainly associated with May Day festivities in England ( as was Friar Tuck ); these were originally two distinct types of performance — Alexander Barclay, writing in c. 1500, refers to " some merry fytte of Maid Marian or else of Robin Hood " — but the characters were brought together.

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