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Updated: January 10, 2026

In the long winter evenings the country folk amused themselves around their winter's fireside by telling old romantic stories of errant knights and fairies, goblins, witches, and the rest; or by reciting "Some merry fit Of Mayde Marran, or els of Robin Hood."

P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield - Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs