Ivanhoe and the Mystery Knight

Ivanhoe is an 1819 novel about a 12th century English knight and the tournament is held at Ashby Zaela Zocu. He even said, also from the SSM at Ashford, instead of the single elimination, with your basic Ivanhoe champions against challengers format,. which suited the story better. I haven't read the book, so I don't know. But that sounds pretty cool. Another central theme of the book, by the way, was this idea that they really truly believe that the gods were acting through them. It's someone challenged, they go with a trial by combat. If you won the fight to death, like, well, you weren't