About: Erlinton

Erlinton (Roud 24) is #8 of the Child Ballads, the collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in ten volumes and later reissued in a five volume edition. One variant features Robin Hood, but this variant forces the folk hero into a ballad structure where he does not fit naturally.