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Scott makes the 12th-century's Saxon-Norman conflict a major theme in his novel.

Recent re-tellings of the story retain his emphasis.

Scott also shunned the late 16th-century depiction of Robin as a dispossessed nobleman ( the Earl of Huntingdon ).

This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.

The most notable Robin Hood films are the lavish Douglas Fairbanks 1922 silent film, the 1938 triple Academy Award winning Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn as Robin ( which contemporary reviewer Frank Nugent links specifically with Ivanhoe ), and the 1991 box-office success Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner ).

In most versions of Robin Hood, both Ivanhoe and Robin, for instance, are returning Crusaders.

They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).