Sir Walter Scott Appreciation discussion

In this week's reading we meet the Norman Sir Hugo de Lacy who comes to Lady Eveline's rescue and also his nephew, Damian.
Also we meet a supernatural being called a Bahr Geist which is similar to the Irish Banshee

From Wikipedia:

Sometimes the banshee assumes the form of some sweet singing virgin of the family who died young, and has been given the mission by the invisible powers to become the harbinger of coming doom to her mortal kindred. Or she may be seen at night as a shrouded woman, crouched beneath the trees, lamenting with veiled face, or flying past in the moonlight, crying bitterly. And the cry of this spirit is mournful beyond all other sounds on earth, and betokens certain death to some member of the family whenever it is heard in the silence of the night.

This particular spirit meets only with the female of the line of Baldringham , of which Eveline is through her paternal grandmother.

I have read until the end of chapter 15 and having trouble feeling any sympathy with Eveline Berenger, even after her experience in the chamber. She has put aside all her Saxon background and allied herself completely with the Normans.
I am enjoying the character Rose, however. She seems to have a good head on her shoulders.

Rosemarie wrote: "I have read until the end of chapter 15 and having trouble feeling any sympathy with Eveline Berenger, even after her experience in the chamber. She has put aside all her Saxon background and allie..."

There was very little intermingling of Saxon and Norman for hundreds of years after the Conquest and I suspect Eveline is more Norman than Saxon and this explains her rejection of her Saxon connection. Normans saw the Saxons as beneath them and so does Eveline.