Sammendrag av Ivanhoe på Chapter 43

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1. Spectators gather at Templestowe, where Dennet, Allan-a-Dale, and Friar Tuck discuss conflicting stories about Athelstane.
2. The Templars bring Rebecca to the pyre, and Malvoisin prevents a public oath by claiming Bois-Guilbert has already sworn.
3. Rebecca maintains her innocence, receives more time for a champion to appear, and rejects Bois-Guilbert’s proposal to escape together.
4. The exhausted Ivanhoe arrives, identifies himself, and provokes Bois-Guilbert into accepting combat despite his wounds.
5. Both knights fall in the charge, but Ivanhoe rises and demands that his motionless opponent surrender.
6. The Grand Master declares Bois-Guilbert defeated, discovers his death, and accepts the outcome as divine judgment.

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The narrator identifies emotional conflict, not Ivanhoe’s weapon, as the cause of death. This distinguishes the stated cause from Beaumanoir’s religious interpretation.

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