Just stick around here for a while and you'll get the jist of it.
He wasn't a terrorist for starters.
He was perhaps the greatest man of the 20th century.
As for his popularity, well he was a revolutionary, he loved the people and he stuck it up uncle sam. But there's many more reasons than those ones.
Here underneath dis laitl stean Laiz Robert Earl of Huntingdon. Near arcir ver az hie sae geud, An pipl kauld im Robin Heud: Sic an utlawz as hi an is men Vil England niver si agen. Obiit 24 Kal, dekembris, 1247 epitaph of Robin Hood