The earliest surviving text of a Robin Hood ballad is the 15th-century "Robin Hood and the Monk". This is preserved in Cambridge University manuscript Ff.5.48. Written after 1450,Introduction accompanying Knight and Ohlgren's 1997 ed. it contains many of the elements still associated with the legend, from the Nottingham setting to the bitter enmity between Robin and the local sheriff.
The earliest surviving text of a Robin Hood ballad is the 15th-century "Robin Hood and the Monk" This is preserved in Cambridge University manuscript Ff.5.48. Written after 1450,Introduction accompanying Knight and Ohlgren's 1997 ed. it contains many of the elements still associated with the legend, from the Nottingham setting to the bitter enmity between Robin. and the local sheriff.