Yuh, the Robin Hood and Arthur stuff struck me as odd. But go around and ask people, it's a very common misbelief that both were real and that they're stories are almost completely as the legends tell.
And as for Arthur, my understanding has always been that he was an amalgum of several different Celtic and Saxonian kings, and then after the stories were combined, they were embellished.
The same is almost cirtainly true of Robin Hood too.
I mean, if they were asking 'did one person called this exist and do all the funcky stuff he did in the books' then no, but there were still historical figures on which the person was based.
But considering that 1 in 4 people weren't sure that the Battle of Trafalgar existed then I am guessing that most who answered 'yes' to Robin Hood and Author were thinking of the ledgends one.
I would be curious to know what area this was carried out in, because cirtain areas of england (such as yorkshire) are very proud of national history, and would likely be a lot ofr knowledgeable about it, esspesally local history such as the war of a roses (though,people from yorkshire say that they won, and people from Lancaster say that they won. It is a bit like that only Naval battle from WW1 as far as I can tell, the germans retreated, but the Bristish had greater losses and nothing was really effected at all).
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And as for Arthur, my understanding has always been that he was an amalgum of several different Celtic and Saxonian kings, and then after the stories were combined, they were embellished.
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I mean, if they were asking 'did one person called this exist and do all the funcky stuff he did in the books' then no, but there were still historical figures on which the person was based.
But considering that 1 in 4 people weren't sure that the Battle of Trafalgar existed then I am guessing that most who answered 'yes' to Robin Hood and Author were thinking of the ledgends one.
I would be curious to know what area this was carried out in, because cirtain areas of england (such as yorkshire) are very proud of national history, and would likely be a lot ofr knowledgeable about it, esspesally local history such as the war of a roses (though,people from yorkshire say that they won, and people from Lancaster say that they won. It is a bit like that only Naval battle from WW1 as far as I can tell, the germans retreated, but the Bristish had greater losses and nothing was really effected at all).
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