Scott's noble knight brave Ivanhoe returns home from the Crusades to claim Rowena an Anglo-Saxon princess to be his bride. Before long he is embroiled in the struggle between Prince John and his brother Richard the Lionheart who has returned incognito and enlisted the aid of Robin Hood and his merry men to back to the throne of England.

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- A. N. Wilson