The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
By Joseph Bédier (translated by Hilaire Belloc)
Cover: Tristan and Isolde with the Potion (c. 1916), oil on canvas by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1917; published before 1930)
Joseph Bédier's French retelling of the legend of Tristan, the knight, and Iseult, the queen, bound by a potion. Hilaire Belloc's translation keeps the old tale's direct and sorrowful voice.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: The Childhood of Tristan
- 2: The Morholt Out of Ireland
- 3: The Quest of the Lady with the Hair of Gold
- 4: The Philtre
- 5: The Tall Pine-Tree
- 6: The Discovery
- 7: The Chantry Leap
- 8: The Wood of Morois
- 9: Ogrin the Hermit
- 10: The Ford
- 11: The Ordeal by Iron
- 12: The Little Fairy Bell
- 13: Iseult of the White Hands
- 14: The Madness of Tristan
- 15: The Death of Tristan