Woodcut on the first page of Geste of Robyn Hode, attributed to the press of Jan van Doesborch at Antwerp, it ca. 1510–1515.

The author of the Gest shares with that other fifteenth-century  compiler, Sir Thomas Malory, the ability to combine and develop  materials of high potency and complexity into a generically new whole of great future impact, which manages to convey and even enhance the source materials’ innate values and power. 

(Knight and Ohlgren, 1997)

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