Maid Marian

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Maid Marian in English folklore, the lover of Robin Hood; she is also traditionally a female character in the morris dance and May game, and (in modern use) a named character in the Horn dance performed annually at Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. Her appearance in later forms of the story of Robin Hood may be attributable to the fact that both were represented in the May Day pageants.

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