For other uses, see Tristan and Iseult (disambiguation).
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Tristan and Isolde by Herbert Draper (1901)
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] Based on a Celtic legend and possibly other sources, the tale is a tragedy about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. It depicts Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. On the journey, Tristan and Iseult ingest a love potion, instigating a forbidden love affair between them.
The legend has had a lasting impact on Western culture. Its different versions exist in many European texts in various languages from the Middle Ages. The earliest instances take two primary forms: the so-called courtly and common branches, respectively associated with the 12th-century poems of Thomas of Britain and Béroul, the latter believed to reflect a now-lost original tale. A subsequent version emerged in the 13th century in the wake of the greatly expanded Prose Tristan, merging Tristan's romance with the mythology of King Arthur. Finally, after the revived interest in the medieval era in the 19th century under the influence of Romantic nationalism, the story has continued to be popular in the modern era, notably Wagner's operatic adaptation.
TristanandIseult, also known as Tristanand Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century...
in the legend of TristanandIseult. The most prominent is Iseult of Ireland, the wife of Mark of Cornwall and the lover of Tristan. Her mother, the queen...
TristanandIseult. In the legend, he is tasked with escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. Tristanand Iseult...
The Prose Tristan (Tristan en prose) is an adaptation of the TristanandIseult story into a long prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely...
largely on the 12th-century romance TristanandIseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hoftheater...
appearance in Arthurian legend as the uncle of Tristanand the husband of Iseult who engages with Tristan in a secret liaison, giving Mark the epithet "Cuckold...
legend, specifically in the tragic love-and-loss story of TristanandIseult. It was the home of the hero Tristan (one of the Knights of the Round Table)...
Galahad, Gawain, Ywain, andTristanandIseult. Whereas Arthur is very much at the centre of the pre-Galfridian material and Geoffrey's Historia itself...
directed by François Truffaut. Reminiscent of the medieval legend of TristanandIseult but set among young middle-class people in a provincial city, it tells...
Brangwin, etc.) is the handmaid and confidante of Iseult of Ireland in the Arthurian legend of TristanandIseult. She appears in most versions of the...
andIseult, published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold, is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes. This poem draws upon the Tristan and...
collection is called The Lais of Marie de France and its subject is an episode from the romance of TristanandIseult. The title means "honeysuckle," a symbol...
12th-century Prose Tristanand subsequent accounts. In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, he is the second king of Lyonesse, son of Felec of Cornwall and vassal of...
in the book. The TristanandIseult legend – a tragic love triangle between the Irish princess Iseult, the Cornish knight Tristanand his uncle King Mark...
Mark of Cornwall, andTristan later helps him in battle and becomes fast friends with his son Kahedin and his daughter Iseult. Tristan convinces himself...
(1963) TristanandIseult (1971); retells the story of TristanandIseult The Arthurian Trilogy (inspired by Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur) The Sword and the...
Lancelot and Guinevere can be seen as a parallel to that of TristanandIseult, with Lancelot ultimately being identified with the tragedy of chance and human...
kill her, which Merlin explicitly orders them to do, and free Meliodas. Years later, TristanandIseult will take refuge in her now abandoned but still enchanted...
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