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In the 12th century, at the close of
the Third Crusade to free the Holy Land...
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...a Saxon knight,
called Wilfred of Ivanhoe...
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...undertook a private crusade of his own.
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England's warrior king,
Richard the Lion-Hearted...
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...had disappeared during his
homeward march, vanishing without trace.
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His disappearance dealt a cruel blow
to his unhappy country...
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...already in turmoil from the bitter conflict
between Saxon and Norman.
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And in time, most of his subjects
came to mourn him as dead.
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But Ivanhoe's faith
that his king still lived...
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...took him on an endless quest
from castle to castle...
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...until, at last, he came to Austria.