Ivanhoe

CHAPTER XLII

1 (p. 430) epigraph: The lines are written by Scott himself.

2 (p. 436) Athelstane… stood before them … like something arisen from the dead!: [Author’s note] Raising of Athelstane. The resuscitation of Athelstane has been much criticised, as too violent a breach of probability, even for a work of such fantastic character. It was a tour-de force, to which the Author was compelled to have recourse by the vehement entreaties of his friend and printer, who was inconsolable on the Saxon being conveyed to the tomb.