Anne of Geierstein: or, The Maiden of the Mist

Anne of Geierstein is the last of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. The novel is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury, covering the period of the Swiss involvement in the Burgundian Wars. Two exiled Lancastrians are on a secret mission to the court of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, hoping to gain his help in regaining the English crown from the Yorkist Edward IV. The two Englishmen get into difficulties in th...