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Tristan
Tristan (Latin/ Brythonic: ''Drustanus''; ; ), also known as Tristran or Tristram and similar names, is the folk hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. While escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love potion during the journey and fall in love, beginning an adulterous relationship that eventually leads to Tristan's banishment and death. The character's first recorded appearance is in the 12th-century poetic tellings initiated by Béroul and Thomas of Britain, which were eventually vastly expanded in the later tradition from the vast Prose ''Tristan''. In later versions of his story he is featured in Arthurian legend, including the seminal compilation ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', as a great Knight of the Round Table and friend of Lancelot. The historical roots of Tristan are unclear; his association with Cornwall may originate from the Tristan Stone, a 6th-century granite pillar in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan And Iseult
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. Of disputed source, usually assumed to be primarily Celtic nations, Celtic, the tale is a tragedy about the illicit love between the Cornish people, Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult in the days of King Arthur. During Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland in the Middle Ages, Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, 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 subse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knight Of The Round Table
The Knights of the Round Table (, , ) are the legendary knights of the fellowship of King Arthur that first appeared in the Matter of Britain literature in the mid-12th century. The Knights are a chivalric order dedicated to ensuring the peace of Arthur's kingdom following an early warring period, entrusted in later years to undergo a mystical quest for the Holy Grail. The Round Table at which they meet is a symbol of the equality of its members, who range from sovereign royals to minor nobles. The various Round Table stories present an assortment of knights from all over Great Britain and abroad, some of whom are even from outside of Europe. Their ranks often include King Arthur's family, Arthur's close and distant relatives, such as Agravain, Gaheris and Yvain, as well as his reconciled former enemies, like Galehaut, Pellinore and King Lot, Lot. Several of the most notable Knights of the Round Table, among them Bedivere, Gawain and Sir Kay, Kay, are based on older characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prose Tristan
The Prose ''Tristan'' ( French: '' oman de' ''Tristan en prose''), also known as ''Tristan de Léonois,'' is a 13th-century Old French adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a lengthy prose romance (heroic literature), romance. It was the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend, making the hero Tristan a member of the Round Table. It was also the first major Arthurian prose cycle commenced after the widely popular ''Lancelot-Grail'' (Vulgate Cycle), which influenced especially the later portions of the Prose ''Tristan''. It exists in multiple distinct variants, notably the "short" and the "long" versions. Versions According to the traditional, but since long and much debated theory, there have been the original "short version" also known as the First Version or Version I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan And Isolde (Life)
''Tristan and Isolde'' () is the title of two oil paintings by the Spanish artist Rogelio de Egusquiza. Both works are based on the opera ''Tristan und Isolde'' by the German composer Richard Wagner, whom Egusquiza idolised. The first painting, subtitled ''Death'' and also known as ' (''The Death of Isolde''), was completed in 1910 and depicts Isolde's "Liebestod", as she collapses in death upon the lifeless body of Tristan. The second painting, subtitled ''Life'', was completed two years later and depicts the lovers embracing in the night, a scene from the second act of Wagner's opera. The two works are part of a series of paintings by Egusquiza depicting Wagnerian subjects after he developed a fascination for Wagner's music in 1879 and met with the composer several times. From the early 1890s, he worked on various Study (art), studies and etchings and exhibited some of them at the Salon (France), salons in France, where they were enthusiastically received. ''Death'' and ''Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Of Cornwall
Mark of Cornwall (, , , ) was a sixth-century King of History of Cornwall, Kernow (Cornwall), possibly identical with King Conomor. As Mark or Marc (''Marc'h''), he is best known for his appearance in King Arthur, Arthurian legend as the uncle of Tristan and the husband of Iseult, who engages with Tristan in a secret liaison, giving Mark the epithet "Cuckold King". King Mark In Old Welsh records, Mark is recorded as "March son of Meirchion" of Kernow (Cornwall). He is associated with governing portions of Gwynedd and Glamorgan in Wales. The distance of these areas from modern day Cornwall may indicate that Mark was in fact a ruler of the eponymous Cornovii. Mark has been identified with Conomor, a king of Domnonea and Kernev (Domnonée and Cornouaille) in Armorica. In his ''Life of St. Paul Aurelian, Pol de Leon'', Wrmonoc of Landévennec refers to a "King Marc whose other name is Quonomorus". Also rendered as ''Cunomorus'', the name means "Hound-of-the-sea".Thomas, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iseult
Iseult ( ), alternatively Isolde ( ) and other spellings, is the name of several characters in the legend of Tristan and Iseult. The most prominent is Iseult the Blonde, or Iseult of Ireland, the wife of Mark of Cornwall and the lover of Tristan. Her mother, the queen of Ireland, is also named Iseult. The third is Iseult of the White Hands, or Iseult of Brittany, the daughter of Hoel and the sister of Kahedin. Name Her name is variably given as most commonly either Iseult or Isolde, but also may appear as Yseult, Ysolt, Isolt, Isode, Isoude, Iseut, Isaut (Old French), Iosóid (Irish), Esyllt (Welsh), Ysella (Cornish), Isolda (Portuguese, Spanish), Izolda (Serbian) and Isotta (Italian), among other forms. The oldest source, Béroul's 12th-century romance, spells her name as ''Yseut'' or ''Iseut''. The etymology is uncertain, with most sources linking it to the Old High German words ''īs'' ("ice") and ''hiltja'' ("battle"). Other writers derive it from a Brythonic *''Adsilt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Of Britain
Thomas of Britain (also known as Thomas of England) was a poet of the 12th century. He is known for his Old French poem ''Tristan">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... poem ''Tristan'', a version of the Tristan and Iseult legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of verse, mostly from the latter part of the story. It is calculated that this represents about one-sixth of the original. Works Because Thomas's ''Tristan'' has an "obvious dependence" on Wace's ''Roman de Brut'', which was completed by 1155, It is likely that Thomas wrote it after 1155, and probably by 1160, possibly for Eleanor of Aquitaine,Legge, p. 49 since the work suggests close ties with the court of Henry II. Beyond this, the identity of the author is obscure. It has been speculated that he is to be identified with the "Thomas" who wrote the '' Romance of Horn'', but this is unsupported. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béroul
Béroul (or Beroul; Norman ) 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 from two references in the text of the poem. ''Tristran'' is the earliest representation of the "common" or "vulgar" version of the legend (the earliest surviving "courtly" version being Thomas of Britain's). The first half of Béroul's poem is closely paralleled by and related to Eilhart von Oberge's treatment in German from the same century, and many of the episodes that appear in Béroul but not Thomas reappear in the later Prose ''Tristan''. Because of its early date, Béroul's ''Tristran'' has been used extensively for the purpose of textual criticism, especially in the effort to reconstruct the "Ur-Tristan," the hypothetical first a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Morte D'Arthur
' (originally written as '; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources. Today, this is one of the best-known works of Arthurian literature. Many authors since the 19th-century revival of the legend have used Malory as their principal source. Apparently written in prison at the end of the medieval English era, ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' was completed by Malory around 1470 and was first published in a printed edition in 1485 by William Caxton. Until the discovery of the Winchester Manuscript in 1934, the 1485 edition was considered the earliest known text of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meliodas
Meliodas or Meliadus is a figure in Arthurian legend in the 12th-century Prose ''Tristan'' and 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 King Mark. Meliodas' first wife, Elizabeth, who bore the hero Tristan, was Mark's sister, and his second wife was a daughter or sister of Hoel of Brittany. He is the eponymous protagonist of the romance ''Meliadus''. The Italian variant ''Tristano Riccardiano'' calls him Felix (''Felissi''). ''Meliadus'' The French romance ''Meliadus'' is a part of the greater work known as '' Palamedes'', a series of tales based on the Prose ''Tristan'' and the ''Lancelot-Grail'' cycle but going back to the heroes of the previous generation. Uther Pendragon, father of Arthur is still alive, and so are the fathers of Erec and Tristan. The title refers to the Saracen knight Palamedes, whose father Esclabor also plays a role. Certain manuscripts identify Palamedes as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthurian Legend
The Matter of Britain (; ; ; ) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. The 12th-century writer Geoffrey of Monmouth's (''History of the Kings of Britain)'' is a central component of the Matter of Britain. It was one of the three great Western story cycles recalled repeatedly in medieval literature, together with the Matter of France, which concerned the legends of Charlemagne and his companions, as well as the Matter of Rome, which included material derived from or inspired by classical mythology and classical history. Its pseudo-chronicle and chivalric romance works, written both in prose and verse, flourished from the 12th to the 16th century. Name The three "matters" were first described in the 12th century by French poet Jean Bodel, whose epic ' ("Song of the Saxons") contains the lines: The name distinguishes and relates the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
