The Diarmuid and Grainne story, which is one of the few Fenian prose tales, is a probable source of Tristan and Iseult.

During the 12th century, Arthur's character began to be marginalised by the accretion of " Arthurian " side-stories such as that of Tristan and Iseult.

Scott had originally planned to next adapt a version of Tristan and Iseult, but after seeing Star Wars, he became convinced of the potential of large scale, effects-driven films.

However, it is referred to in the early 12th century of Tristan and Iseult.

* In Norway, Brother Robert writes Saga Af Tristram ok Ísodd, one of the rare fully surviving versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

Lyonesse is a country in Arthurian legend, particularly in the story of Tristan and Iseult.

His best-known paintings include early seascapes such as " Manawydan's Glass Door " and later works on legendary subjects, such as Trystan ac Esyllt ( Tristan and Iseult ).

# courtly love chivalry, in which a knight's chief duty is to his own lady, and after her, all ladies, as exemplified by Sir Lancelot in his love for Queen Guinevere or Sir Tristan in his love for Iseult

Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse is one of the versions of the Tristan and Iseult legends where some of the events are set at Tintagel.

Fargnoli and Gillespie suggest that the book's opening chapter " introduces major themes and concerns of the book ", and enumerate these as " Finnegan's fall, the promise of his resurrection, the cyclical structure of time and history ( dissolution and renewal ), tragic love as embodied in the story of Tristan and Iseult, the motif of the warring brothers, the personification of the landscape and the question of Earwicker's crime in the park, the precise nature of which is left uncertain throughout the Wake.

: Branwen is also the name of a character in some versions of Tristan and Iseult.

* Tristan and Iseult

The first work that was translated into Old Norse was reportedly the Arthurian romantic story Tristan and Iseult, which was finished in 1226 after orders from the young and newly-wed Haakon.

Danielle MacBain ’ s study of Thomas Malory ’ s “ Le Morte d ’ Arthur ,” claims Lancelot ’ s affair with Guinevere is often seen as parallel to that of Tristram, or Tristan, and Iseult.

* Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde based on the legend of Tristan and Iseult ( F )

The latter is presumably related to the Tristan and Iseult legend, though it is interesting that Tristan is not named.

** various-Tristan et Iseult ( Tristan and Iseult )

For example, love potions make a person fall in love ( or become deeply infatuated ) with another ( the love potion figures tragically into most versions of the tale of Tristan and Iseult, including Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde ); sleeping potions cause a person to fall asleep ( in folklore, this can range from normal sleep to a deathlike trance ); and elixirs heal / cure any wound / malady ( as in C. S.

The theme survives into medieval legend and folklore, with dragon slayers such as Beowulf, Sigurd, Tristan, Margaret the Virgin, Heinrich von Winkelried, Dobrynya Nikitich, Skuba Dratewka / Krakus.

Other dishes include Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde after characters in Arthurian legend, much of which takes place in Cornwall.

The blocks across the center are scenes from the legend of Tristan.

Though Wagner was working on his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he found himself intrigued by the legend of Tristan und Isolde.

According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter, attempted to do so, writing that:

Two years after Visions de l ' Amen, Messiaen composed the song cycle Harawi, the first of three works inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

This long, sprawling, and often lyrical work ( the modern edition takes up thirteen volumes ) follows Tristan from the traditional legend into the realm of King Arthur where Tristan participates in the Quest for the Holy Grail.

The writer Sigmund Eisner concluded that the name Tristan comes from Drust, son of Talorc, but that the legend of Tristan as we know it, was gathered together by an Irish monk living in North Britain around the early eighth century.

The legend of Tristan has also been represented through the song of the same name by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, and was the lead single from his 2005 album, Wind in the Wires.

In 1983, Russian composer Nikita Koshkin wrote a classical guitar solo entitled Tristan Playing the Lute, evoking the spirit of Tristan from the legend of " Tristan and Isolde ", initially set in a playful adaptation of traditional English lute music.

Gottfried von Strassburg ( died c. 1210 ) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend.

* 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist ( d. 1963 )

* 1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.

* 1999 – Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor

* 1803 – Flora Tristan, French philosopher ( d. 1844 )

* 1971 – Tristan Louis, American writer

* 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor

* 1989 – Tristan Wilds, American actor

* 1845 – Tristan Corbière, French poet ( d. 1875 )

# John Tristan of Valois ( 1250 – 3 August 1270 ), married Yolande of Burgundy

* 1947 – Tristan Murail, French composer

* 2005 – Tristan Egolf, American writer ( b. 1971 )

* 1982 – Tristan Prettyman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and model

* Bruce, I. T., Thomas Buce: St Helena Postmaster and Stamp Designer, Thirty years of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan Philately, pp 7 – 10, 2006, ISBN 1-890454-37-0

* 1866 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist ( d. 1947 )

Tristan Bernard ( 7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947 ) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.

* December 25 – Tristan Tzara, French poet ( b. 1896 )

* October 10 – A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated.

* September 7 – Tristan Bernard, French writer ( d. 1947 )

* February 9 – 6. 00 p. m. – Tristan Tzara " founds " the art movement Dadaism ( according to Hans Arp ).

* February 28 – Tristan Louis, French Internet entrepreneur

* March 1 – Tristan Corbière, French poet ( b. 1845 )

* April 7 – Flora Tristan, French feminist ( d. 1844 )

* July 18 – Tristan Corbière, French poet ( d. 1875 )

* September 7 – François Tristan l ' Hermite, French dramatist ( b. 1601 )