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friar tuck
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Friar Tuck
Friar Tuck is a companion to Robin Hood in the legends about that character. He is a common character in modern Robin Hood stories, which depict him as a jovial friar and one of Robin's Merry Men. The figure of Tuck was common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland during the 15th through 17th centuries. He appears as a character in the fragment of a Robin Hood play from 1475, sometimes called Robin Hood and the Knight or Robin Hood and the Sheriff, and a play for the May games published in 1560 which tells a story similar to Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar. It has often been argued that the character entered the tradition through these folk plays, and that he may have originally been partnered with Maid Marian. His appearance in "Robin Hood and the Sheriff" means that he was already part of the legend around the time when the earliest surviving copies of the Robin Hood ballads were being made. A friar with Robin's band in the historical period of Richard the Lion-Hearted would have been impossible, because the period predates friars in England; however, the association of the Robin Hood with Richard I was not made until the 16th century; the early ballad A Gest of Robin Hood names his king as "Edward".
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Friar Tuck
Robin Hood's chaplain and steward, introduced by Scott into "Ivanhoe" as a kind of clerical Falstaff.
Editors Contribution
FRIAR TUCK
Tuck- Or an estoc is a cruciform sword popular during the 14th and 15th centuries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoc
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Etymology and Origins
Friar Tuck
So called because, like that of all friars, his habit was tucked or drawn up round the cord that encircled his waist.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of friar tuck in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of friar tuck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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