The Irish Princess: Her father's only daughter. Her country's only hope.

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Norris J. Lacy (editor). Arthurian Archives: Early French Tristan Poems. Cambridge (England); Rochester, New York: D.S. Brewer, 1998. ISBN 0-8240-4034-1

This name means cub or puppy from the Gaelic word “cailean.” It can also be used as a diminutive of the name Nicholas, which means victor or victorious people.Premiering in 1865, Richard Wagner's influential opera Tristan und Isolde depicts Tristan as a doomed romantic figure, while Isolde fulfills Wagner's quintessential feminine role as the redeeming woman. Swiss composer Frank Martin wrote the chamber opera, intended as an oratorio, Le Vin herbé between 1938 and 1940. [32]

An animated TV series, Tristán & Isolda: La Leyenda Olvidada, aired in Spain and France in 1998. [38] The 2002 French animated phil Tristan et Iseut is a redacted version of the traditional tale aimed at a family audience. [39] See also [ edit ] Another Irish analog is Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin, preserved in the 14th-century Yellow Book of Lecan. In this tale, Cano is an exiled Scottish king who accepts the hospitality of King Marcan of Ui Maile. His young wife, Credd, drugs all present and convinces Cano to be her lover. They try to keep a tryst while at Marcan's court, but they are frustrated by courtiers. In the end, Credd kills herself, and Cano dies of grief.Author, scholar and historian Rosalind Miles wrote a trilogy of fictional novels based upon the romance of Iseult, beginning with Isolde: Queen of the Western Isle (2002), followed by The Maid of the White Hands (2005), and concluding with The Lady of the Sea (2005).

English composer Rutland Boughton composed the music drama The Queen of Cornwall, inspired by Hardy's play. Its first performance was at the Glastonbury Festival in 1924. Feeling that Hardy's play offered too much-unrelieved grimness, Broughton received permission to import a handful of lyrics from Hardy's early poetical works. In 2010, it was recorded on the Dutton Epoch label with Ronald Corp conducted the New London Orchestra and members of the London Chorus, including soloists Neal Davies (King Mark), Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristam), and Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany). Ellis, Peter Berresford (June 27, 1996). Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. W.B. Eerdmans Pub. ISBN 9780802838087– via Google Books. There are references to March ap Meichion (Mark) and Trystan in the Welsh Triads, some gnomic poetry, the Mabinogion stories, and the 11th-century hagiography of Illtud. A character called Drystan appears as one of King Arthur's advisers at the end of The Dream of Rhonabwy, a 13th-century tale in the Middle Welsh prose collection known as the Mabinogion. Iseult is also a member of Arthur's court in Culhwch and Olwen, an earlier Mabinogion tale. [6] Irish [ edit ] This gorgeous Irish name is pronounced ‘ash-ling’ and derives from the Gaelic word aislinge for a 17 th-century poetic form.N. J. Lacy ( et al.). Tristan from The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991.