The first clear reference to " rhymes of Robin Hood " is from the late-14th-century poem Piers Plowman, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century.

It is not supported by the earliest ballads.

Although this view has become increasingly popular, it is certainly not supported by the earliest ballads.

This practice is reflected in the ballads written about Turpin, the earliest of which, Dick Turpin, would appear to have been published in 1737.

Thereafter, Child devoted himself to the comparative study of British vernacular ballads, using methods adopted from historical comparative philology to arrive at the earliest attested versions.

This song was one of the earliest of the American ballads.

He appears in the earliest recorded Robin Hood ballads and stories.

In England songs about military and naval subjects were a major part of the output of ballad writers from the 16th century onwards, including one of the earliest British ballads ‘ The Ballad of Chevy Chase ’, which deals with the events of the Scottish victory of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 and may date to the early 15th century.

The first of the two ballads of Chevy Chase was perhaps written as early as the 1430s, but the earliest record we have of it is in The Complaynt of Scotland, one of the first printed books from Scotland.

Much is present from the very earliest Robin Hood ballads, in which he often accompanies Little John on physical journeys and even gets involved in brawls.

He was a well-known figure at the time the earliest Robin Hood ballads likely developed in the 14th century.

He was present in the earliest ballads along with Little John and Much the Miller's Son.

In the earliest medieval ballads of Robin Hood, the ' bold outlaw ' is stated as having made Barnsdale Forest his abode and base of operations ( as an example, see A Gest of Robyn Hode ).

One of the earliest collectors of Appalachian ballads was Kentucky native John Jacob Niles ( 1892 – 1980 ), who began noting ballads as early as 1907 as he learned them in the course of family, social life, and work.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

Returning boomerangs actually do fly and are examples of the earliest heavier-than-air man-made flight.

( The latter prohibition took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date on which Congress had the power to do so under Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.

The earliest sources do not use the term " West Saxon ".

The earliest figurines are quite simple and do not show intricate features.

Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified " Shinto religion ", but rather to disorganized folklore, history, and mythology.

By most accounts, the earliest Arabic and Latin descriptions of the purification of saltpeter do not appear until the 13th century.

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

Not only do they provide some of the earliest evidence for Christianity in Britain, they are almost unique – the closest parallels come from a house-church in Dura Europus, Syria.

It has been pointed out that the two additional verses are not in the style of the seventeenth century, or the existing rhyme, and that they do not fit with the earliest printed version of the rhyme, which do not mention horses and men.

The earliest manuscripts, such as the fourth-century AD Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 do not contain the verses describing David coming each day with food for his brothers, nor 1 Samuel 17: 55 – 58 in which Saul seems unaware of David ’ s identity, referring to him as " this youth " and asking Abner to find out the name of his father.

Accounts of the event have survived in which Aethelberht is killed through the machinations of Offa's wife Cynethryth, but the earliest manuscripts in which these possibly legendary accounts are found date from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and recent historians do not regard them with confidence.

This is the earliest surviving written agreement between an English king and a Welsh ruler, and under its terms Llywelyn was to swear fealty and do homage to the king.

The earliest models such as the Altair 8800 were often sold as kits to be assembled by the user, and came with as little as 256 bytes of RAM, and no input / output devices other than indicator lights and switches, useful as a proof of concept to demonstrate what such a simple device could do.

Another factor that may have contributed to the relative neglect of creole languages in linguistics is that they do not fit the 19th century neogrammarian " tree model " for the evolution of languages, and its postulated regularity of sound changes ( such as the earliest advocates of the wave model, Johannes Schmidt and Hugo Schuchardt, the forerunners of modern sociolinguistics ).

Although the earliest historical records in the region do not go back much further than ca.

The earliest versions of the grail romance, however, do not call the grail " holy " or mention anything about blood, Joseph or Glastonbury.

There is little evidence that any of the earliest tetrapods could move about on land, as their limbs could not have held their midsections off the ground and the known trackways do not indicate that they dragged their bellies around.

He first tried his hand at playwriting here, at the age of 12, though his earliest works do not survive.

The character for " dragon " in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period.

The character for " dragon " in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period.

The Greeks, moreover, will admit that even amongst those who are considered to be most largely endowed with wisdom, good fortune has had much to do, as in the choice of teachers of one kind rather than another, and in meeting with a better class of instructors ( there being teachers who taught the most opposite doctrines ), and in being brought up in better circumstances ; for the bringing up of many has been amid surroundings of such a kind, that they were prevented from ever receiving any idea of better things, but constantly passed their life, from their earliest youth, either as the favourites of licentious men or of tyrants, or in some other wretched condition which forbade the soul to look upwards.

The earliest known reference to fermented alcoholic drinks being made from pears is found in Pliny, but perry making seems to have become well established in what is today France following the collapse of the Roman empire ; references to perry making in its later heartland of England do not appear before the Norman Conquest.

Fulham, or in its earliest form " Fullanham ", is uncertainly stated to signify " the place " either " of fowls " or " of mud " ( which probably had to do with the fact that the River Thames would flood it periodically ), or alternatively, " land in the crook of a river bend belonging to a man named Fulla ".

Monotreme mammals also have a cloaca, which is thought to be a feature inherited from the earliest amniotes via the therapsids.

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

He produced and directed the Biograph film Judith of Bethulia ( 1914 ), one of the earliest feature films to be produced in the United States.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

The earliest surviving feature film, the Antoś pierwszy raz w Warszawie ( Antoś for the First Time in Warsaw ) was made in 1908 by Antoni Fertner.

Remnants of these steppe civilizations were discovered in such places as Ipatovo, Sintashta, Arkaim, and Pazyryk, which bear the earliest known traces of mounted warfare, a key feature in nomadic way of life.

There is no widespread agreement as to which written work should be recognized as the earliest example of a time travel story, since a number of early works feature elements ambiguously suggestive of time travel.

' Controversially, the show was one of the earliest mainstream programmes to feature the swear word " bloody ".

Many of his programs also feature something of a psychedelic element, as in some of the earliest " light synthesizer " programs including his Trip-a-Tron.

They are among the earliest and most abundant of the small shelly fossils with mineralized skeletons, and therefore feature in the debate about why such skeletons first appeared in the Late Ediacaran.

It was also the earliest known arcade game to feature a joystick with a fire button, which was used as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move the player's tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen ; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.

This feature, known on recorders from the earliest examples ( although rare on subsequent cornetts ), suggests that professional instrument makers made the cornett of that time.

The earliest known feature length narrative film in the world was the Australian production, The Story of the Kelly Gang ( 1906 ).

Film production commenced in Australia in 1906 with the production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film ever made.

The earliest feature length narrative film in the world was the Australian produced The Story of the Kelly Gang ( 1906 ), also shown at the Athenaeum.

Herzog Zwei, released for the Sega Genesis in 1989, is the earliest example of a game with a feature set that falls under the contemporary definition of modern real-time strategy.

After he made his earliest feature films in 1969 Fassbinder centered his efforts in his career as film director, but he maintained an intermittent foothold in the theater until his death.

Zinnemann's penchant for realism and authenticity is evident in his first feature The Wave ( 1935 ), shot on location in Mexico with mostly non-professional actors recruited among the locals, which is one of the earliest examples of realism in narrative film.

The earliest surviving feature is the round tower, which dates from the 12th century and has a 14th-century octagonal extension, one of the best preserved in the country.

One of the earliest television plots to feature parallel time was a 1970 storyline on soap opera Dark Shadows.

The earliest feature was a large ditch which may have formed part of the defences around a promontory fort previously identified during earlier excavations near the coast at Castle Park.

The 55-minute film is considered to be the earliest surviving American feature film.

The ninth book in the series, The First Four Years ( novel ), and the final one to feature Laura as the protagonist, follows the earliest years of Laura and Almanzo's marriage.

It enjoyed some success as one of the earliest open source tools developed for feature motion picture visual effects and animation work.

The impulse to incorporate historical material into literary texts has been an intermittent feature of literature in the west since its earliest days.