Regarding Robin Hood and his opposition to the king and aristocracy, is it known whether there was an ethnic (for lack of a better term) component to his program (basically a latter-day Hereward the Wake)? In other words, did he oppose the king and nobles because they were foreigners, or would he have just as happily robbed a hypothetical Godwinson king and Anglo-Saxon lords?

Great question!

Kind of impossible to know for sure, given that Robin Hood’s legend as far as we can tell started well after the Norman Conquest. 

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