Matter of Britain Figure
Tristan and Iseult
- Summary
- Originally an independent Celtic story of a love-potion, a king's nephew and a queen, absorbed into the Arthurian orbit by the thirteenth-century Prose Tristan and thence into Malory, where Tristram gets a book of his own. The affair is the structural rhyme for Lancelot and Guinevere, and the older of the two.
- Kind
- legendary
Worldviews
Chretien's Courtly Romance, Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH