... , loyalty just a few qualities one chivalric hero would possess when faced by the brink of tension between two forces to which he is devoted to both. Since the Battle of Hastings, England was quickly conforming under the Norman rule of a lion-hearted Crusade fighter, King Richard. Ivanhoe, the hero of this historical romance, represents a possible resolution to the growing strains between the Normans and the ... a magic sword, Excalibur, which protects him until his exodus. The use of the supernatural force in the story of Ivanhoe is not even present until a Saxon crone, Ulrica, at Torqu...

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