William of Cloudeslee
In the Northumbrian ballad of Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and Wyllyam of Cloudeslee, which was a source of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, William of Cloudeslee claims that he can shoot an apple of his sons head at 120 paces.
This is a poem created by George Lyman Kittredge
"I have a sonne seven years old;
Hee is to me full deere;
I will tye him to a stake--
All shall see him that bee here--
And lay an apple upon his head,
And goe six [score] paces him froe,
And I myself with a broad arrowe
Shall cleave the apple in towe."
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More information and details can be found at:
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rThAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=Henning+Wulf&hl=en&ei=QoBXTOXGFZKcsQOxy_3ZAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/hml/hml15.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_apple_off_one's_child's_head
This is a poem created by George Lyman Kittredge
"I have a sonne seven years old;
Hee is to me full deere;
I will tye him to a stake--
All shall see him that bee here--
And lay an apple upon his head,
And goe six [score] paces him froe,
And I myself with a broad arrowe
Shall cleave the apple in towe."
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More information and details can be found at:
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rThAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=Henning+Wulf&hl=en&ei=QoBXTOXGFZKcsQOxy_3ZAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/hml/hml15.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_apple_off_one's_child's_head