“The Bloodstained Altar” (1846): A Medieval Scottish Legend | Stephen Basdeo (ed.)

Jealousy, betrayal and Gothic vengeance collide in this short medieval romance from Reynolds’s Miscellany. Set against the age of Robert the Bruce and the Crusades, “The Bloodstained Altar” follows Allan Lockhart’s apparent murder, miraculous survival, and dramatic return to Scotland on the very day his beloved is to marry another.