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Title: The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult

Author: M. Joseph Bedier

Release Date: December 3, 2004 [EBook #14244]

Language: English

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THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT

The Romance of Tristan & Iseult Drawn from the best French Sources and
Retold by J. Bedier Rendered into English by H. Belloc

London: George Allen & Company, Ltd. Ruskin House, Rathbone Place.
Mcmxiii

[All rights reserved]

"Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut," by M. Joseph Bedier, was crowned by
the French Academy

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & Co.

at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

CONTENTS

PART THE FIRST

The Childhood of Tristan
The Morholt out of Ireland
The Quest of the Lady with the Hair of Gold
The Philtre
The Tall Pine-Tree
The Discovery
The Chantry Leap

PART THE SECOND

The Wood of Morois
Ogrin the Hermit
The Ford
The Ordeal by Iron

PART THE THIRD

The Little Fairy Bell
Iseult of the White Hands
The Madness of Tristan
The Death of Tristan

PART THE FIRST

THE CHILDHOOD OF TRISTAN

My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is
that of Tristan and Queen Iseult; how to their full joy, but to their
sorrow also, they loved each other, and how at last they died of that
love together upon one day; she by him and he by her.

Long ago, when Mark was King over Cornwall, Rivalen, King of Lyonesse,
heard that Mark's enemies waged war on him; so he crossed the sea to
bring him aid; and so faithfully did he serve him with counsel and
sword that Mark gave him his sister Blanchefleur, whom King Rivalen
loved most marvellously.

He wedded her in Tintagel Minster, but hardly was she wed when the
news came to him that his old enemy Duke Morgan had fallen on Lyonesse
and was wasting town and field. Then Rivalen manned his ships in
haste, and took Blanchefleur with him to his far land; but she was
with child. He landed below his castle of Kanoel and gave the Queen in
ward to his Marshal Rohalt, and after that set