Re: Re: Bow and Orlanthi

From: Graham Robinson <graham_at_...>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:24:47 +0100

>Not practical in the bush? It never did Robin Hood any harm in
>Sherwood Forest! * Besides, Odaylans have a lot of scary stuff to
>hunt...
>
>Wulf
>
>* for the historically pedantic, 'Forest' used to mean 'Royal Hunting
>ground', so it was probably mostly open meadow...

Or for the truly pedantic, 'Robin Hood' never existed (as such*) so the comment is more or less irrelevant... Although there were enough Englishmen who used the long bow in hunting that I'll not argue with Wulf too much.

Cheers,
Graham

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