Some facts about Robin Hood

• A highly skilled archer and swordsman, Robin Hood is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor,"
• According to legend, Robin Hood, along with his followers, wandered in the Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham.
• In the earliest sources Robin Hood is a commoner, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff. 
• Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes.
• Robin Hood was outlawed, for the first time, for poaching a deer.
• Historic records show a man named Robin Hood lived in Wakefield, Yorkshire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
• Robin Hood was the leader of the 'Merry Men,' a band of fellow outlaws.
• One of the earliest references to Robin Hood is in the story 'Prince of Thieves' (14th century).
• The word sheriff comes from ‘Shire Reeve,’ an official appointed by the crown to collect taxes. 
• It is believed that Robin was the son of Adam Hood, a forester.