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What color was Robin Hood's tights?

Red.

The earliest stories about Robin Rude date back to the XNUMXth century.

In the longest and most important of them, "A Gest of Robyn Hode", Robin and his "merry gang" are dressed in "scarlet robes" of striped fabric.

In other ballads, Robin appears alternately in red and scarlet, while his fellows are invariably dressed in green. Thus, Robin's status as a commander is emphasized: in medieval England, "scarlet" cloth was considered the most expensive, since kermes, obtained from dried female kermes worms (Kermes ilicis), was used to dye it.

This also explains the origin of Robin's name - an association with a robin bird (robin redbreast) - and one of his closest associates, Will Scarlet (Scarlet (English) - scarlet, bright red.).

Only in later versions does the color of the Sherwood legend's outfits become bright green - although, if you think about it carefully, "Lincoln Green" may not be so green at all.

In medieval England, Lincoln was the capital of the dye industry. The color "Lincoln Green" was indeed bright green (blue paint made from mignonette was dyed yellow), but "Lincoln Grain" was just the same scarlet - the paint was prepared from kermes, at that time known by the word "graine".

The early Robin Hood ballads are simply obsessed with clothing. In addition to the fact that the "noble robber" himself is nicknamed in honor of his headdress (The word hood is translated from English as "hood".), in the "Small Song" almost every stanza mentions robes, dresses, capes, trousers, shirts and fabrics in six different colors, and in one of the songs, Robin even pretends to be a manufactory merchant and sells 123 feet of green cloth to the king.

At least one historian puts forward the following version: the true essence of the stories about Robin Hood is not at all in the traditional struggle "forest against city" or "poor against rich." In his opinion, the main thing in these ballads is the victory of the merchant-adventurer over the decaying, corrupt nobility.

Like, Robin Rude, dressed in expensive red cloth, actually defended not the poor, but only the emerging middle class.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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