The New International Encyclopædia/Talisman, The

TALISMAN, The. A novel by Sir Walter Scott, published, with The Betrothed, in June, 1825. The action takes place in Palestine, during the Crusades. The title of the story is derived from an amulet or charmed stone with which Saladin cures King Richard Cœur de Lion in his illness and which he afterwards presents to the hero, Sir Kenneth, finally discovered to be the Prince Royal of Scotland, on his marriage with Edith, the sister of Richard.