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the title character of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne; the title character of Tristram of Lyonesse, an epic poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne "Tristram", a Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Tristan, Tristram or Tristen is a given name derived from Welsh drust (meaning "noise", "tumult"), influenced by the French word triste and Welsh/Cornish/Breton trist, both of which mean "bold" or "sad", "sorrowful".
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 .
Tristram is a variant of Tristan.A Welsh given name, it originates from the Brythonic name Drust or Drustanus.It derives from a stem meaning "noise", seen in the modern Welsh noun trwst (plural trystau) and the verb trystio "to clatter".
The Last Pilgrimage Also Tristram and Iseult's second brief stay together comes to an end: Tristram is called upon by King Arthur to defeat the Giant Urgan, and Iseult is called back to Tintagel by her husband King Mark. Tristram defeats Urgan and sets sail once more for the coast of Brittany, leaving behind him for the last time the shores of ...
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.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, also known as Tristram Shandy, is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next seven years (vols. 3 and 4, 1761; vols. 5 and 6, 1762; vols. 7 and 8, 1765; vol. 9, 1767).
Sir Tristrem is a 13th-century Middle English romance of 3,344 lines, preserved in the Auchinleck manuscript in the National Library of Scotland. [1] Based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain , it is the only surviving verse version of the Tristan legend in Middle English.