The Mythology of Frederick Barbarossa

The siege of Acre lasted a dreadful two years just misery and disease and privations both inside and outside of the city Richard King Richard fell ill possibly probably with malaria given the conditions. The myth had it that word of Richard's illness reached Saladin and such was his chivalry he could not contemplate the suffering of a fellow monarch so according to the story he sends his own physicians to go and treat him. Sir Walter Scott had a hand in rewritingSaladin as a Shavaric hero no less a figure than Sir Walter Scott has a hand in it hero a novel called the talisman. He describes Saladin not just sending his doctors but actually going to tend to Richard himself in the