Marmion (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- First Published: 1808
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Early sixteenth century
- Setting: The Scottish border
- Principal Characters: Lord Marmion, Ralph de Wilton, Clare Fitz-Clare, Constance de Beverley, Archibald Douglas
- Genres: Short fiction, Historical fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Sixteenth century, Scotland or Scottish people, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Battles, Knights or knighthood, Shrines
- Locales: Scotland
The Story:
Wherever Lord Marmion went, he was welcomed and honored as a brave and valiant knight. The English king had sent him to the Scottish court to try to persuade that country’s king to end armed raids throughout the Border country. Marmion asked a Scottish lord to furnish him a guide, someone of peaceful appearance, and since there was no one else available the lord sent a palmer, a holy man who had made many pilgrimages to religious shrines.
At the same time an abbess, accompanied by several nuns, was making a sea voyage to Cuthbert Isle to hold an inquisition...
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