Talk:Tristram of Lyonesse

What Travasty to Consider These Two as Great Lovers!
Tristram the great lover? Give me a break! He couldn't love anyone but himself and his lust. After Iseult the Fair of Ireland cured him of his poisonous wound, he made vows of love to her. Immediately upon returning to Cornwall, he forgot all about her and had a steamy affair with a married woman. When her husband came home unexpectely, he escaped through the window. When a raffian kidnapped the woman, he did nothing. When her friends chastised him, he got the gall to tell them it's her husband's job to rescue her. No wonder that poor woman spurned him thereafter. Not remembering any love for Iseult, he agreed to get her from Ireland for his uncle King Mark to marry. With no thought for Iseult, he rendered services to her father so he would not refuse his request. On their way back to Cornwall, he found the flask of wine prepared for King Mark and Iseult on their wedding night. Couldn't care less what or who it's for, he drank it with Iseult. That love potion didn't seem to have affected him much. He turned her over to his uncle but not before he had slept with her first. Again, when she was kidnapped, he went hunting instead until King Mark asked him to go rescue her. He had no qualm that she was married to his uncle and slept with her in his uncle's castle whenever he could without regard or shame. After they were caught, they ran away and lived together in the forest. After she was captured, he went to Brittany to recover his wounds. After he was healed in Brittany, he promptly forgot all about Iseult and married Isolde of White Hands of Brittany. He was heartbroken not because he betrayed Iseult or his unclee but because Lancelot denounced him for being an unfaithful cad for betraying his lady and his liege. Then he abandoned his wife and returned to Cornwall. All these affairs were accompanied by his killing lots of people left and right as a matter of course. Just because he killed a few of Cornwall's enemies many years ago, he felt he had the right to do whatever he wants and sleep with whomever he wishes the rest of his life.

Iseult the great lover? You gotta be kidding! She couldn't love anyone but herself and her fantasy. She saw a handsome young man and fell in love with him. It doesn't matter that he killed her mother's brother and her father's champion. She was shrewed enough to keep other suiters around to goad him. And she made sure Tristram was of noble birth and a champion in arms first before she commits herself. When he came back to get her for his uncle, she didn't protest too much and was content to be Queen of Cornwall. In the meantime, she gleefully slept with him before and after her wedding to King Mark. After they were caught and King Mark took her back, she ran away to live with Tristram in the forest. After she was captured, King Mark still forgave her and took her back as his Queen. Yet she got the gall to complain about Tristram not being faithful to her. She forgot that she was the one who was committing adultery secretly and openly. When she found out Tristram was married, she shamelessly begged him to return in secret. When he returned, she promptly resumed their sordid affair while keeping another suiter on the side. When Tristram went mad because she was unfaithful to him, it was again King Mark who saved her from her feable attempt to kill herself.

If such uncontrollable lust is great love, they can have it and spare us!23.242.159.4 (talk) 08:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
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