Other times she is the ward of the sheriff or Prince John. However, in other stories, she's a Saxon who's known Robin since they were children. She meets Robin when he ambushes a group of Norman knights. Sometimes she's a Norman noblewoman, daughter of Lord Fitzwalter or Sir Richard at the Lee, a knight who was helped by Robin Hood. True, she can be merely a damsel-in-distress. She has become a very important part of the legend. Marian's a late-comer to the legend, and she doesn't appear in many of the traditional ballads.
Click here to see a picture of the church. Mary's church in the village of Edwinstowe. Local legend says Robin and Marian were married in St. She is Robin Hood's true love and truly a great woman. (Apr.There's an old saying that behind every great man is a great woman. Unfortunately, the tale never quite takes off the spark of storytelling is overwhelmed by a heavy-handed and somewhat self-righteous social agenda. She also finds the time to carry on a troubled romance with Robert of Loxley (who turns out to be old Agnes's son) and to make a none-too-startling discovery about her own parentage as well. Almost immediately, once-sheltered Marian becomes a sort of feminist guerilla leader, enlisting an ever-growing band of (mostly female) friends to fight injustice. The book teems with wholesomely rough-hewn details in the style of Brian Jacques's Redwall series: the inherited girdle of the Forestwife, for example, is ``rich with the forest dyes of madder, blackberry, sorrel, and marigold.'' Also included are less photogenically folksy period particulars, such as the use of ``scold's bridles'' to muzzle outspoken women.
As it happens, the old Forestwife-a skilled healer with vague connections to pre-Christian traditions-has recently died and Agnes takes on her job, with Mary (renamed Marian) as her assistant. On the run from an arranged marriage, Mary de Holt is lead by her devoted nurse Agnes to the isolated cottage of the dreaded Forestwife. Readers who wish to see Maid Marian as more than a glorified moll to the Merry Men will find much to relish in this ambitious, albeit flawed reworking of the Robin Hood legends.
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