Edited sentence: He can represent Nature, a Folk-Hero, and a Trickster, and these elements of his character often intertwine and coalesce into what could be seen as the Robin Hood archetypal figure.He has been portrayed with many different faces and character-types, and in a multiplicity of contexts.Robin Hood is a constant presence in history and literature, as his nature and even appearance is changed.Some alleged scholars want to seek a more 'realistic' and so banal form of identity, but the issues of Robin Hood's 'real' existence will never have an empirical, and reductive, answer.Teh book draws on medieval and later sources to suggest that Robin Hood existed in the same way as King Arthur, Herne the Hunter and other figures which are enduring forces in culture, and so thus can be said to have existence