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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
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Volume 1, Chapter 7
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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) 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:
).
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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