Note 95 — 120 ROBIN HOOD’S DEATH

It seemed to me at one time that there was a direction to shoot an arrow to determine the place of a grave also in No 16, A 3, I, 185.

Now when that ye hear me gie a loud cry,

Shoot frae thy bow an arrow, and there let me lye.

But upon considering the corresponding passage in 16 B, C, and in 15 B, the idea seems rather to be, that the arrow is to leave the bow at the moment when the soul shoots from the body.