To the modern mind a forest is a large woodland.
The Amazon 'rainforest' is so named because it is an enormous area of wild woodland.
Alongside Robin Hood himself- it is the Major Oak that is the symbol of Sherwood Forest.
But in the Medieval mind a forest was something quite different...
If you asked a medieval person to define a forest their anwswer would probably relate to Deer and the Crown.
This is because a forest was a geographic area subject to forest law
A law introduced by the Normans to protect Deer for the king.
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