Description One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit.
By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isoldes hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark.
On their journey back to Marks court, however, the pair mistakenly drink a love-potion intended for the king and his young bride, and are instantly possessed with an all-consuming love for each another - a love they are compelled to conceal by a series of subterfuges that culminates in tragedy.
Penguin Books Tristan: with the surviving fragments of the 'tristan of thomas', paperback/gottfried von strassburg
