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Ulrica is the daughter of the late Saxon Thane of Torquilstone. When a Norman baron murdered her family and stole their land, he kept Ulrica as his mistress. Ashamed of allying herself with the Saxons’ enemies, Ulrica began calling herself “Urfried” to hide her identity and worked quiet vengeance within the castle, stirring up dissent and eventually convincing Reginald Front-de-Boeuf—the son of her captor and lover—to murder his father. She clears her conscience by helping Cedric, Athelstane, Rowena, and the rest escape Torquilstone by setting it on fire, and she dies as its walls collapse in flames.
Ulrica (Dame Urfried) Quotes in Ivanhoe
The Ivanhoe quotes below are all either spoken by Ulrica (Dame Urfried) or refer to Ulrica (Dame Urfried). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1, Chapter 7 Quotes
The figure of Rebecca might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England. […] Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shewn to advantage by a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of the females of her nation. Her turban of yellow silk suited well the darkness of her complexion. The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl and the profusion of her sable tresses[…]—all these constituted a combination of loveliness, which yielded not to the loveliest of the maidens who surrounded her. […] The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants, was another distinction of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly envied by those who affected to deride them.
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Ulrica (Dame Urfried) Character Timeline in Ivanhoe
The timeline below shows where the character Ulrica (Dame Urfried) appears in Ivanhoe. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Volume 2, Chapter 10
...her fate in an isolated turret room occupied by a wrinkled old crone called Dame Urfried. Muttering darkly that no one will hear her screams from this remote room, Urfried regards...
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Volume 2, Chapter 12
...or to avenge their cruel deaths, Cedric slips from the room. Almost immediately he encounters Urfried and Rebecca, who wants him to bring news and comfort to the wounded knight (Ivanhoe).
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Volume 2, Chapter 13
Urfried shepherds Rebecca back into a castle room, then leads the monk—the disguised Cedric—to another little...
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Disgusted by what he considers her betrayal of the Saxon cause, Cedric tells Ulrica to as God, not him, for forgiveness. She threatens him that she can easily tell...
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Ulrica vanishes through a hidden door just as Front-de-Boeuf enters the apartment, demanding to know whether...
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Volume 2, Chapter 14
...to a wounded “companion” rather than preparing to defend the castle, he assigns Ivanhoe to Ulrica, who recruits Rebecca as nurse. Thus, Ivanhoe ends up back in Rebecca’s care.
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Volume 2, Chapter 15
...that a priest has arrived who might have more news. And that’s how she and Ulrica come to lie in wait for Cedric.
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Volume 2, Chapter 16
...of his father. After a pause he lays the blame for that event squarely on Ulrica.
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Ulrica steps from the shadows and taunts Front-de-Boeuf with the specter of his castle falling to...
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Volume 3, Chapter 1
...to missiles and arrows from the defenders on the walls. As Locksley catches sight of Ulrica’s promised red flag on the battlements, he shouts encouragement, and his archers renew their attack....
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Ulrica appears high on the castle walls, her long disheveled hair whipping in the wind. She...
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