The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

by Bedier, Joseph; Belloc, Hilaire

• ISBN13: 9780679750161
• ISBN10: 0679750169
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-31
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, 'The Romance of Tristan and Iseult' is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law.

Author Biography

Joseph Bedier (1864–1938) was a distinguished French medievalist, literary historian, and poet. His authoritative reconstruction of The Romance of Tristan and Iseult from the ancient French poems and a variety of other early sources was originally published to considerable acclaim in France in 1900. He also produced a critical edition of the Chanson de Roland, among other volumes of literary history.

Hilaire Belloc was born near Paris in 1870 and raised in England, though he remained a French citizen until 1902. He attended Balliol College in Oxford. His most famous works were his humorous morality poems and cautionary tales for children. After the loss of his son in World War I he wrote a series of historical biographies and religious texts, reaffirming his Roman Catholic faith. He died in 1953.

Table of Contents

The Childhood of Tristan	1	(12)
The Morholt Out of Ireland	13	(10)
The Quest of the Lady with the Hair of Gold	23	(16)
The Philtre	39	(8)
Brangien Delivered to the Serfs	47	(8)
The Tall Pine-Tree	55	(12)
The Dwarf Frocin	67	(8)
The Chantry Leap	75	(12)
The Wood of Morois	87	(14)
Ogrin the Hermit	101	(8)
The Ford	109	(10)
The Ordeal by Iron	119	(10)
The Voice of the Nightingale	129	(10)
The Little Fairy Bell	139	(6)
Iseult of the White Hands	145	(12)
Kaherdin	157	(8)
Dinas of Lidan	165	(12)
Tristan Mad	177	(14)
Death	191