Robin Hood - the hero of English folk ballads. This character is both a literary and mythological. Many British researchers over the past two centuries trying to establish its possible historical prototype, but so far their efforts have not been successfulWorld famous image of Robin Hood was after Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Legend of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe". The image of Robin Hood in this novel takes on a romantic painting - a hero, for whom the main thing is upholding justice and freedom of the country from the Norman invaders. Becoming a legendary national hero, Robin Hood retains its main positive features - kindness, loyalty friendship, willingness to help a victim of injustice.
