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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".
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 .
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
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 Chinese artist, who heard the smashing noise from an adjacent room, described the man’s actions as “unacceptable,” telling the Art Newspaper: “Such acts not only undermine the museum ...
The English monarchy also laid claim to owning "Tristram's sword", [l] and this according to Roger Sherman Loomis was the "Curtana" ("short") used in the coronation of the British monarch. Loomis also argues that Curtana's origins as Tristram's sword was known to the author of this passage in Prose Tristan , but the tradition was forgotten in ...
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