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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 .
Thomas Malory's The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones is the only other medieval handling of the Tristan legend in English. Malory provided a shortened translation of the French Prose Tristan and included it in his Arthurian romance compilation Le Morte d'Arthur. In Malory's version, Tristram is the son of the King of Lyonesse.
Sir Tristram (7 April 1971 – 21 May 1997) [1] was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who stood at stud in New Zealand, where he sired an extraordinary 45 Group One winners, including three Melbourne Cup winners. His progeny earned him 17 official Leading Australasian sire premierships, plus nine broodmare sire titles.
Tristram or Tristan, a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend; Tristram the Younger, ... Sir Tristram (1971–1997), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire;
The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions The Story of the Champions of the Round Table is a 1905 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle . The book consists of many Arthurian legends, including those concerning of the young Sir Launcelot , Sir Tristram , and Sir Percival .
Sir Severause le Breuse (or Severauce, known for rejecting battles with men in favour of giants, dragons, and wild beasts) Sir Suppinabiles (Cornish knight Supinabel from the French Tristan legend) Sir Urry of Hungary (this story's original character and plot device, cursed by a spell of Spanish duchess for killing her son) Sir Villiars the Valiant
Alternate form Tristram has also been in use since the Middle Ages [2] and was the more usual form of the name after the publication of the 1759-60 comic novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. Later usage of the name Tristan was influenced by Richard Wagner 's 1860 opera Tristan und Isolde .
Sir Tristram wins the rubies. Breaking tradition, he rudely declares to the ladies that the "Queen of Beauty" is not present. Arthur's fool, Dagonet, mocks Tristram. In the north, meanwhile, Arthur's knights, too full of rage and disgust to heed their King, trample the Red Knight, massacre his men and women, and set his tower ablaze.