Tristan

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"Tristan" is a seminal Middle High German courtly romance, most famously adapted by Gottfried von Strassburg, that recounts the tragic love story of the knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde.

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Label Occurrences
Tristan canonical 9
Isolde 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arthurian literature
Middle High German literature
courtly romance
medieval romance
associatedPlace Brittany
Cornwall
Ireland
author Gottfried von Strassburg
basedOn Béroul’s Tristan
surface form: Tristan and Isolde legend
circulation courtly audiences
containsCharacter Iseult of the White Hands
surface form: Isolde of the White Hands

King Marke
surface form: King Mark
containsMotif exile
love potion
love triangle
secret love
countryOfOrigin Holy Roman Empire
fragmentaryStatus survives incomplete
genre chivalric romance
courtly love literature
influenced Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde
later Tristan and Isolde adaptations
influencedBy Anglo-Norman literature
surface form: Anglo-Norman Tristan tradition

Celtic legend of Tristan
language Middle High German
literaryForm verse romance
literaryMovement High medieval courtly culture
literaryStatus seminal work of Middle High German romance
literaryTradition German courtly literature
mainCharacter Isolde
Tristan self-link
manuscriptTradition multiple medieval manuscripts
narrativeFocus love affair between Tristan and Isolde
narrativeMode third-person narration
relatedWork Béroul’s Tristan
Prose Tristan
surface form: Eilhart von Oberg’s Tristrant

Sir Tristan
surface form: Thomas of Britain’s Tristan
settingPeriod Chivalry
surface form: Age of chivalry
subjectMatter conflict between love and feudal loyalty
courtly intrigue
knightly adventures
theme courtly love
honor and duty
loyalty and betrayal
tragic love
timeOfComposition early 13th century

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Arthurian legend hasCharacter Tristan
this entity surface form: Isolde
Tristan mainCharacter Tristan self-link
Tristan Thompson givenName Tristan
Sir Tristram nameVariant Tristan