Tristan and Isolde

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea of its content. The central plot of the archetype must have been roughly as follows: The young Tristan ventures to Ireland to ask the hand of...