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Tristram of Lyonesse is a long epic poem written by the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, that recounts in grand fashion the famous medieval story of the ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde (Tristram and Iseult in Swinburne's version).
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.
Lyonesse (/liːɒˈnɛs/ lee-uh-NESS) is a kingdom which, according to legend, consisted of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, to what is now the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean. It was considered lost after being swallowed by the ocean in a single night.
1922 illustration by N. C. Wyeth: "King Mark slew the noble knight Sir Tristram as he sat harping before his lady la Belle Isolde." In the Prose Tristan, Mark is the son of king Felix and his character deteriorates from a sympathetic cuckold to a villain; he rapes his niece and murders her when she produces his son, Meraugis. Mark also murders ...
Tristram's Woodpecker, a bird; Tristram's starling or Tristram's grackle, a bird; Tristram's jird, a species of gerbil; Sir Tristram (1971–1997), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire; RFA Sir Tristram (L3505), a Landing Ship Logistics of the Round Table class; Tristam (disambiguation) Tristan (disambiguation)
A French ship that sank following an 1856 collision while on its maiden voyage has been found off the Massachusetts coast, according to a report. For nearly 170 years, Le Lyonnais lay at the ...
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.