Strange Happenings

  When King Richard and Ivanhoe reached Aelthelstane's house, where Aethelstane's funeral banquet was going on, Cedric welcomed them and showed them to the room in which they would be staying.  Then the door opened and in came Aethelstane, alive!  Cedric and Richard asked how Aelthelstane came to be where he was and not dead.  Aelthestane replied that when he had been knocked down in the battle he had not really been killed, but made unconscious.  The monks that were in charge of him in the church had found out that he was alive and so fed him on bread and water to keep him alive, but they gave him some wine that must have been drugged because he fell back to sleep immediately.  When he awoke again he was in his own house in the coffin but his feet were tied up so he couldn't move.  Thankfully he was able to free himself and make it to where Cedric was.  When he had finished telling his story he told Rowena that she didn't have to marry him, because he knew that she didn't want to.  Then a message came and Ivanhoe and Richard were seen dashing off on their horses.

  Meanwhile Rebecca was sitting in the lists waiting for someone to come and fight on her behalf, but so far no one had.  Then, in came Ivanhoe all tired out from riding so fast and he said he would fight for Rebecca.  At first Brian refused to fight with him because Ivanhoe was wounded but when Ivanhoe threatened to tell everyone that Brian was a coward, he agreed to fight.  They rode to opposite ends of the field and then they rode thunderously at each other and met at the middle.  They both fell off their horses, but Brian did not get back off the ground again.  The head of the Templars, Lucas, said that that was a sign from heaven that Rebecca was guiltless, so she was able to go away in peace.        

Brian de-Bois-Guilbert - His Passions

   Because Rebecca was so beautiful, Lucas Beaumanoir started to feel pity for her and he started to relent from his meanness.  He appointed Brian de-Bois-Guilbert as the man to fight for the temple against the man whom Rebecca would chose to fight for her cause.  

   Rebecca sent a peasant to find her father and tell him to find someone to fight for her.  The peasant went and found Isaac with his friend another Jew.  When Isaac heard the news of his daughter he threw himself upon the ground and threw dust in his hair and tore his clothes.  His friend tried to comfort him, but to no avail.   

   Meanwhile, Brian was trying to get Rebecca to listen to him and to let him save her.  He tried to talk to her and to tell her that he would not fight for the temple even if it meant losing all his fame, but she was not thankful and tried to make him relent, which just made him upset.  He left her cell and met up with Albert Malvoisin who persuaded him to stay and fight for the temple and Brian listened to him.