The Lady of the Lake
By Walter Scott
Cover: Loch Katrine (1866), oil on canvas by Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1867)
In six cantos Scott sends a hunting king, disguised as a knight, into the Highlands, where Ellen Douglas lives on an island in Loch Katrine and the clans are about to rise against him. The chase, the feud and the love story made the Trossachs famous and gave the Highland chieftain his romantic name.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.