Talk:Merry Men

Will Stutely

I believe that there might have been some vandalism with respect to Will Stutley. No source is cited and it certainly doesn't marry with the reference at the bottom of the page. Maybe I'm wrong?219.114.103.192 (talk) 06:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Lock?

You may want to put a lock on this article for a little while. I have sent the following email to Radcliffe and Maconie (I am a fan of the show and they know me as a regular correspondent):

Hi Mark and Stuart,

Can you please not ask people to vandalise Wikipedia in future? There are a lot of people who work hard as volunteers maintaining the integrity of the site, and they could do without stuff like this.

Thanks

Martyn Smith from Croydon

Martyn Smith (talk) 14:17, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

 Done--Cúchullain ^t/c 14:33, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Aw but Martyn, Piers the Pencil is my favourite Merry Man. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.6.228.60 (talk) 21:59, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Archaic sense of the word "merry"

I've added a "not in citation given" to the claim about merry's "archaic meaning". The link simply says that "merry man" has been used to describe an outlaw's companions since the late 14th Century. It doesn't tell us anything about the meaning of the word "merry" by itself, or suggest that it meant anything different in the past. As the lead currently stands, it's like trying to claim that the word "jolly" meant "pirate-related" in the early modern era, based on its use in the phrase "jolly roger".

It may simply be that bands of outlaws were traditionally portrayed as being care-free and jovial in the Middle Ages, leading to the popular phrase "merry men". In either case, the citation given doesn't teach us anything about the history of the word merry or its "archaic meaning", but the lead makes it sound like it does.Señor Service (talk) 19:57, 2 February 2013 (UTC)