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It depicts Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. On the journey, Tristan and Iseult ingest a love potion, instigating a forbidden love affair between them. The legend has had a lasting impact on Western culture. Its different versions exist in many European texts in various languages from the ...
Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Trystan), also known as Tristram, Tristyn or Tristain and similar names, is the folk hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. [1] In the legend, his objective is escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love potion ...
In some later versions he is related to Tristan's father, Meliadus. King Mark and La Belle Iseult by Edward Burne-Jones (1862) Mark sends Tristan as his proxy to bring his young bride, Princess Iseult, from Ireland. Tristan and Iseult fall in love and, with the help of a magic potion, have one of the stormiest love affairs in medieval ...
Ystorya Trystan, also known as Trystan ac Esyllt or The Welsh Fragment of Tristan, is an early Welsh tale of uncertain date, though no later than the 16th century, which tells, partly in prose and partly in verse, an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult. [1]
It was the home of the hero Tristan (one of the Knights of the Round Table), whose father Meliodas was king of Lyonesse. After the death of Meliodas, Tristan became the heir of Lyonesse, but he was never to take up his inheritance because the land sank beneath the sea while he was away at his uncle King Mark's court in Cornwall. In later ...
Tristan's uncle, husband to Iseult: Meirchion: Tristan and Iseult: Father to Mark of Cornwall Melehan: Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 Elder son of Mordred: Meliodas: Meliadus Prose Tristan: Le Morte d'Arthur: Father to Tristan, Tristan's father was named Rivalen in earlier versions Menw ap Tairgwaedd: Culhwch and Olwen c. 1100 Welsh Triads
Tristan and Iseult is a children's novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and was first published in 1971. A re-telling of the ancient legend, it received the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award in 1972, [1] and was runner-up for the 1972 Carnegie Medal. [2] It is set primarily in Cornwall, and is Sutcliff's retelling of the Tristan and Iseult legend.
Tristan and Iseult is a chivalric romance retold in numerous variations since the 12th century. [1] The story is a tragedy about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. It tells of Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland for marriage to his uncle, King Mark. On the journey back to Cornwall ...