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Béroul (or Beroul; Norman Berox [1]) was a Norman or Breton poet of the mid-to-late 12th century. He is usually credited with the authorship of Tristran (sometimes called Tristan), a Norman language version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult, of which just under 4500 verses survive in a manuscript of the 13th century. His name is known only ...
Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century. [1] Of disputed source, usually assumed to be primarily Celtic , the tale is a tragedy about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult in the days of ...
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 ...
Tristan and Isolde (Life) by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1912) 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.
He is known exclusively through his Middle High German romance Tristrant, the oldest surviving complete version of the Tristan and Iseult story in any language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Tristrant is part of the "common" or "primitive" branch of the legend, best known through Béroul 's fragmentary Norman language Tristan . [ 3 ]
La Belle Iseult by William Morris (1858). The Irish princess, Iseult of Ireland is the daughter of King Anguish of Ireland and Queen Iseult the Elder. She is a main character in the Tristan poems of Béroul, Thomas of Britain, and Gottfried von Strassburg and in the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.
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She is the inadvertent catalyst in the development of the story's central romance: before Tristan takes Iseult back to Cornwall to be the wife of his uncle King Mark, Iseult's mother (also named Iseult) entrusts Brangaine with a love potion meant for Iseult and her new husband to drink on their wedding night. However, Tristan and Iseult find ...