Rohalt, the keeper of faith, took the child, but already Duke Morgan's men besieged the Castle of Kanoel all round about.
And as by sadness you came into the world, your name shall be called Tristan that is the child of sadness."Īfter she had said these words she kissed him, and immediately when she had kissed him she died. In sadness came I hither, in sadness did I bring forth, and in sadness has your first feast day gone. "Little son, I have longed a while to see you, and now I see you the fairest thing ever a woman bore. Three days she awaited re-union with her lord, and on the fourth she brought forth a son and taking him in her arms she said: She did not weep: she made no cry or lamentation, but her limbs failed her and grew weak, and her soul was filled with a strong desire to be rid of the flesh, and though Rohalt tried to soothe her she would not hear.
He landed below his castle of Kanoel and gave the Queen in ward to his Marshal Rohalt, and after that set off to wage his war.īlanchefleur waited for him continually, but he did not come home, till she learnt upon a day that Duke Morgan had killed him in foul ambush. Then Rivalen manned his ships in haste, and took Blanchefleur with him to his far land but she was with child.
He wedded her in Tintagel Minster, but hardly was she wed when the news came to him that his old enemy Duke Morgan had fallen on Lyonesse and was wasting town and field. Long ago, when Mark was King over Cornwall, Rivalen, King of Lyonesse, heard that Mark's enemies waged war on him so he crossed the sea to bring him aid and so faithfully did he serve him with counsel and sword that Mark gave him his sister Blanchefleur, whom King Rivalen loved most marvellously. My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult how to their full joy, but to their sorrow also, they loved each other, and how at last they died of that love together upon one day she by him and he by her.
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