Editing Robin Hood (section)

===Grave at Kirklees===
[[File:Robin Hood's Grave - geograph.org.uk - 271586.jpg|thumbnail|'Robin Hood's Grave' in the woods near [[Kirklees Priory]] in [[West Yorkshire]]]]

At [[Kirklees Priory]] in West Yorkshire stands an alleged grave with a spurious inscription, which relates to Robin Hood. The fifteenth-century ballads relate that before he died, Robin told Little John where to bury him. He shot an arrow from the Priory window, and where the arrow landed was to be the site of his grave. The ''Gest'' states that the Prioress was a relative of Robin's. Robin was ill and staying at the Priory where the Prioress was supposedly caring for him. However, she betrayed him, his health worsened, and he eventually died there. The inscription on the grave reads,

{{Poem quote|Hear underneath dis laitl stean
Laz robert earl of Huntingtun
Ne'er arcir ver as hie sa geud
An pipl kauld im robin heud
Sick [such] utlawz as he an iz men
Vil england nivr si agen
Obiit 24 kal: Dekembris, 1247
}}

Despite the unconventional spelling, the verse is in [[Modern English]], not the [[Middle English]] of the 13th century.  The date is also incorrectly formatted – using the [[Roman calendar]], "24 kal Decembris" would be the twenty-third day ''before'' the beginning of December, that is, 8 November.  The tomb probably dates from the late eighteenth century.<ref name="Roberts">{{cite web
|url=https://lowercalderlegends.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/robin-hoods-grave-kirklees-park-part-one/
|title=Robin Hood's Grave, Kirklees Park
|last=Roberts
|first=Kai
|date=20 March 2010
|website=Ghosts and Legends of the Lower Calder Valley
|access-date=13 June 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401041916/https://lowercalderlegends.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/robin-hoods-grave-kirklees-park-part-one/
|archive-date=1 April 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

The grave with the inscription is within sight of the ruins of the [[Kirklees Priory]], behind the Three Nuns pub in [[Mirfield]], West Yorkshire. Though local folklore suggests that Robin is buried in the grounds of Kirklees Priory, this theory has now largely been abandoned by professional historians.