Talk:Ivanhoe
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[edit] Discussion
I removed the part of the article that said that Ivanhoe was a suburb in Melbourne, Australia because that is unimportant information to fellow wikipedians.
[edit] Criticism section needed
A criticism section would be a good addition. I'd lead it off with Mark Twain, who hated Sir Walter Scott's romanticism sufficiently that in Huckleberry Finn he named the wrecked steamboat "Ivanhoe". He wrote at one point that Scott caused the US Civil War by bestowing upon the South a mistaken sense of chivalry and a determination to fight battles that are against impossible odds. This was an exaggeration of course, it's Mark Twain after all, but he's probably the leading critic (or criticizer, anyway). Tempshill 19:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Splitting an arrow
Did Ivanhoe split the arrow like Robin Hood?
- No, Robin Hood split the arrow in Ivanhoe. The point is that he didn't do that in any earlier version of the legend - Scott seems to have invented it.
[edit] English language
I've seen at least two books on the English language quote Scott's shrewd observation in the book about naming food animals: the live animals have Anglo-Saxon names because the Saxon peasants raised them; the meat has Norman-French names (mutton, pork) because the Norman nobility ate it. I thought Scott should get credit in the article for this. CharlesTheBold 17:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
What the hell is this guy saying? He uses so many run on sentences that it is difficult to follow.24.166.7.47 20:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Historical Accuracy
I've altered this section to take account of authoritative but largely overlooked research. An accurate transcription of the brief but important article referred to can be found at [1]-- Mabzilla 13:48, 11 November 2007 (UTC) Also see [2]--Mabzilla 11:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A comment about Rebecca
I think the line about the character Rebecca needs to be altered as it is not entirely clear what it means. Shinigami27 (talk) 15:23, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thither
I replaced the word "thither" with "there." The words thither and hither are quickly becoming obsolete (having been replaced by "there" and "here," respectively) and, therefore, their use makes the language of this article less intelligible to many readers. ask123 (talk) 16:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
